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Asked: 2026-05-21T20:13:32+00:00

I have a requirement to extract all the text that is present in the

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I have a requirement to extract all the text that is present in the <body> of the html. Sample Html input :-

<html>
    <title>title</title>
    <body>
           <h1> This is a big title.</h1>
           How are doing you?
           <h3> I am fine </h3>
           <img src="abc.jpg"/>
    </body>
</html>

The output should be :-

This is a big title. How are doing you? I am fine

I want to use only HtmlAgility for this purpose. No regular expressions please.

I know how to load HtmlDocument and then using xquery like ‘//body’ we can get body contents. But how do I strip the html as I have shown in output?

Thanks in advance 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use the body’s InnerText:

    string html = @"
<html>
    <title>title</title>
    <body>
           <h1> This is a big title.</h1>
           How are doing you?
           <h3> I am fine </h3>
           <img src=""abc.jpg""/>
    </body>
</html>";

HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(html);
string text = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//body").InnerText;

    Next, you may want to collapse spaces and new lines:

    text = Regex.Replace(text, @"\s+", " ").Trim();

    Note, however, that while it is working in this case, markup such as hello<br>world or hello<i>world</i> will be converted by InnerText to helloworld – removing the tags. It is difficult to solve that issue, as display is ofter determined by the CSS, not just by the markup.

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