Question

Given this XML, how can I retrive the HEX color?

<group>
    <span style="color:#DF0000; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold">Webmaster</span>
</group>

I need to retrieve everything inside of the style. Then I can use the String.Substring method with .IndexOf() to retrieve the color for my use.

Thank you for the help.

Incase anyone is curious this is what I ended up with:

XElement str = doc.XPathSelectElement("/ipb/profile/group");                
                string color = str.Element("span").Attribute("style").Value;

                color = color.Substring(color.IndexOf('#'), 7);
                return color;

Answer 1

You can use LINQ-to-XML:

var elem = XElement.Parse(str);
var attr = elem.Element("span").Attribute("style").Value;

Note that if your HTML is not completely well-formed, you should consider using the HTML Agility Pack instead.