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emailing a web page as plain text

I was looking for a way to send a web page as an email from a windows form appliction. Quite easily done:
 

HTMLDocument htmlPage = (HTMLDocument)WebBrowser.Document;

email.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html;

email.Body = htmlPage.body.innerHTML;

email.From = "me@here.com";

email.To = "you@there.com";

email.Subject = "subject";

SmtpMail.SmtpServer = settings.SMTPServer;

SmtpMail.Send(email);

 

Then, I looked at how to send as plain text, which I used htmlPage.body.innerText, however, this rendered the links unusable, simply saying "Click here" rather than Click here So, I decided to render links as "text" (url). So they could still be used. To do this, I could use extensive parsing and regular expressions, or this nifty piece of code:

 

foreach(IHTMLElement htmElement in htmlPage.links)

{

IHTMLAnchorElement htmLink = (IHTMLAnchorElement)htmElement;

htmElement.innerHTML = htmElement.innerText + " (" + htmLink.href + ")";

}

email.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Text;

email.Body = htmlPage.body.innerText;

 

Nice eh?

 

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