Question

I would like to search an HTML file for a certain string and then extract the tags. Given:

<div_outer><div_inner>Happy birthday<div><div>

I would like to search the HTML for “Happy birthday” then have a function return some sort of tag structure: this is the innermost tag, this is the tag outside that one, etc. So, <div_inner></div> then <div_outer></div>.

Any ideas? I am thinking HTMLAgilityPack but I haven’t been able to figure out how to do it.

Thanks as always, guys.

Answer 1

The HAP is a good place indeed for this.

You can use the OuterHtml and Parent properties of a Node to get the enclosing elements and markup.