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user469652
user469652

Reputation: 51241

How to load raw HTML into a string in C#?

I need to store HTML code for an email template in a variable, so I want to load raw HTML source into a string. This obviously doesn't work if I can't escape its contents.

For instance, I can't do this:

string myHtml = "<html><body>
    <a href="foo.bar" class="blap">blip</a>
</body></html>";

How can I store HTML code as a native C# string?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 47905

Answers (3)

Joel Coehoorn
Joel Coehoorn

Reputation: 415755

Old, but C# now also has a Raw String Literal feature to make this even easier:

string myHtml = """<html><body>
    <a href="foo.bar" class="blap">blip</a>
</body></html>""";

No need to worry about the quotes in the string, and you can use any number of starting/ending quotes if for some reason you have text already containing sets of quotes together.

Upvotes: 0

Preet Sangha
Preet Sangha

Reputation: 65496

If you html code is in a file you can File.ReadAllText

string myString = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("path to the file");

Upvotes: 7

Marc Gravell
Marc Gravell

Reputation: 1062780

Strings and HTML should be fine. The only complication is escaping, which is made easier using verbatim string literals (@"..."). Then you just double any double-quotes:

string body = @"<html><body>
<a href=""foo.bar"" class=""blap"">blip</a>
...
</body></html>";

Upvotes: 35

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