c# - Match nested HTML tags -

in c# app, want match every html "font" tag "color" attribute.

i have following text:

1<font color="red">2<font color="blue">3</font>4</font>56 

and want matchcollection containing following items:

[0] <font color="red">234</font> [1] <font color="blue">3</font> 

but when use code:

regex.matches(result, "<font color=\"(.*)\">(.*)</font>"); 

the matchcollection following one:

[0] <font color="red">2<font color="blue">3</font>4</font> 

how can matchcollection want using c#?

thanks.

regex on "html" antipattern. don't it.

to steer on right path, @ can html agility pack:

htmldocument doc = new htmldocument(); doc.loadhtml(@"1<font color=""red"">2<font color=""blue"">3</font>4</font>56"); var fontelements = doc.documentnode.descendants("font"); var newnodes = fontelements.select(fe => {     var newnode = fe.clone();     newnode.innerhtml = fe.innertext;     return newnode; }); var collection = newnodes.select(n => n.outerhtml); 

now, in collection have following strings:

<font color="red">234</font>  <font color="blue">3</font>  

mmm... lovely.