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Asked: 2026-05-25T12:11:16+00:00

I need to be able to simply specify elements from html in my C#

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I need to be able to simply specify elements from html in my C# application. I would just use Linq to Sql but this needs to be configurable/serializable to a string. I could of course use XPath but something like Sizzle at this point is just so much more natural for most people.

Anyone know if a sizzle selectors implementation exists in .Net?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yepp, Fizzler. It’s built upon HtmlAgilityPack and works very well, even though the authors says it’s beta. We use it in production on a major project. Samples from the documentation:

    // Load the document using HTMLAgilityPack as normal
var html = new HtmlDocument();
html.LoadHtml(@"
  <html>
      <head></head>
      <body>
        <div>
          <p class='content'>Fizzler</p>
          <p>CSS Selector Engine</p></div>
      </body>
  </html>");

// Fizzler for HtmlAgilityPack is implemented as the 
// QuerySelectorAll extension method on HtmlNode

var document = htmlDocument.DocumentNode;

// yields: [<p class="content">Fizzler</p>]
document.QuerySelectorAll(".content"); 

// yields: [<p class="content">Fizzler</p>,<p>CSS Selector Engine</p>]
document.QuerySelectorAll("p");

// yields empty sequence
document.QuerySelectorAll("body>p");

// yields [<p class="content">Fizzler</p>,<p>CSS Selector Engine</p>]
document.QuerySelectorAll("body p");

// yields [<p class="content">Fizzler</p>]
document.QuerySelectorAll("p:first-child");
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