Convert HTML to plain-text

Demonstrates how to convert HTML to plain-text. The HTML-to-text conversion component is included with the Chilkat HTML-to-XML license.

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Dim h2t As New Chilkat.HtmlToText()

'  Any string argument automatically begins the 30-day trial.
Dim success As Boolean
success = h2t.UnlockComponent("30-day trial")
If (success <> true) Then
    MsgBox(h2t.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


'  Set the HTML:
Dim html As String
html = "<html><body><p>This is a test.</p><blockquote>Here is text within a blockquote</blockquote></body></html>"

Dim plainText As String

plainText = h2t.ToText(html)

TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & plainText & vbCrLf

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