Storing Html into a string in C#

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In my project, I need to read some URLs and store the starting tags into some variables, but the project won't compile. May be, its because I am not using the assignment to the string correctly. Following is what i tried and got the compile error

string startTag = "<span id="productLayoutForm:OurPrice" class="pdp_details_hs18Price" itemprop="price">";

string anotherStartTag = "<span class="price final-price our fksk-our" id="fk-mprod-our-id">Rs.<span class="small-font">"

Please tell, what should be the correct code for above and where can I learn how to store such HTMLs into string or how to use string for such puposes.

@Francois, I know it's basic but I wasn't able to search out a good documentation to understand things fast....sorry — Pankaj Upadhyay
– Pankaj Upadhyay, Commented Jan 16, 2012 at 7:16
Pankaj, am I correct to assume that you seek to put values from codebehind into some HTML? Or do you want the string above to reflect exactly as it is in HTML? — Frank Allenby
– Frank Allenby, Commented Jan 16, 2012 at 7:21
@FrankAllenby, Actually what I am doing is visiting some URL and then extracting the values from certain Divs or spans.....And then rendering those fetched values in my rendered View — Pankaj Upadhyay
– Pankaj Upadhyay, Commented Jan 16, 2012 at 7:30
@Pankaj, Mhmm okay. I would suggest, then, that you append the proper strings to one another using an addition operator(+) e.g. string1 + " " + string2, etc. so that you can include other values in the string. Also, you should escape the quotes as others have suggested for static string values such as style names(if they are static). It may be dangerous to extract values from certain divs, as any change made to a name or ID of that div can break your code. But that's beyond the scope of this question :). — Frank Allenby
– Frank Allenby, Commented Jan 16, 2012 at 7:34

Rob · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-16 07:12:43Z

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You need to "escape" the quotes in your strings, for example:

string startTag = "<span id=\"productLayoutForm:OurPrice\" class=\"pdp_details_hs18Price\" itemprop=\"price\">";

The \ before the quotes that are inside the string tells the C# compiler that the quotes are part of the string and not the beginning/end of the string.

answered Jan 16, 2012 at 7:12

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Pankaj Upadhyay Over a year ago

Can we use single quotes '. Will it make any difference ?

Rob Over a year ago

@PankajUpadhyay - I'd imagine you have a copy of Visual Studio somewhere, try it and see! =) That said, the single quote ' is used in C# to denote char so won't work. C# doesn't work in the same way as Javascript =)

f2lollpll Over a year ago

Yes, single quotes should work as well :) if you're talking about single quotes inside the string and not around

V4Vendetta Over a year ago

@Rob I believe sjums is referring the single quote within it should work as in 'productLayoutForm:OurPrice', javascript won't mind it nor would C#

Ravi Gadag Over a year ago

if it helps, acccept it as anwser :)

f2lollpll · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-16 07:11:49Z

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The " sign indicates the start and end of a string.so to use it in the middle of a string you have to escape it, do that by setting a backslash in front of it.. Like this: \"

answered Jan 16, 2012 at 7:11

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