Hi guys I'm trying to take a description which has been entered in a wysiwyg editor and take a substring of it..
i.e
This is some <span style="font-weight:bold;">text</span>
I'd like to limit some descriptions without breaking the html if i just substring and add ...
it breaks the html tags..
I've tried:
string HtmlSubstring(string html, int maxlength)
{
string htmltag = "</?\\w+((\\s+\\w+(\\s*=\\s*(?:\".*?\"|'.*?'|[^'\">\\s]+))?)+\\s*|\\s*)/?>";
string emptytags = "<(\\w+)((\\s+\\w+(\\s*=\\s*(?:\".*?\"|'.*?'|[^'\">\\s]+))?)+\\s*|\\s*)/?></\\1>";
var expression = new Regex(string.Format("({0})|(.?)", htmltag));
MatchCollection matches = expression.Matches(html);
int i = 0;
StringBuilder content = new StringBuilder();
foreach (Match match in matches)
{
if (match.Value.Length == 1 && i < maxlength)
{
content.Append(match.Value);
i++;
}
else if (match.Value.Length > 1)
{
content.Append(match.Value);
}
}
return Regex.Replace(content.ToString(), emptytags, string.Empty);
}
but it doesn't quite get me there!