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Hello all, I've been experimenting on how to print html document using the said 3rd party software called iTextSharp . iTextSharp is a popular tool and has several examples on the internet regarding integration to the project and occurring issues. One of the issue I encountered is Invalid nested div tag and is expecting a closing tag input . As I trace back my html source, the tags are well-formed except that they are self closing tags such as <input>, <hr>, <img>, <br> or the like. These tags when passed to an action method as string are not properly closed and thus an issue is thrown by iTextSharp's XMLWorkerHelper's ParseXHtml() method. <img src= "~/Images/success.png" /> <input type= "hidden" name= "OrderStatusHTML" /> <input type= "submit" id= "btnSubmit" value= "Export to PDF" class= "btn btn-success" /> The solution I came up with is to fi

Below is a simple code to parse a table using HTML Agility Pack. Make sure to add the Html Agility Pack package from Nuget and reference that library in the namespace of your program. 1 using HtmlAgilityPack; Parse Table 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 HtmlWeb web = new HtmlWeb(); HtmlDocument doc = web.Load( "http://your_sample_url" ); // Get all tables in the document HtmlNodeCollection tables = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes( "//table" ); // Iterate all rows in the first table HtmlNodeCollection rows = tables[0].SelectNodes( "tr" ); for ( int i = 0; i <= rows.Count - 1; i++) { // Iterate all columns in this row HtmlNodeCollection cols = rows[i].SelectNodes( "td" ); if (cols != null ) { for ( int j = 0; j <= cols.Count - 1; j++) { // Get the value of the column and print it string value = cols[j].InnerText; Console.Write