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MimeKit

HtmlWriter Class

An HTML writer.
Inheritance Hierarchy
SystemObject
  MimeKit.TextHtmlWriter

Namespace: MimeKit.Text
Assembly: MimeKit (in MimeKit.dll) Version: 4.3.0
Syntax
C#
public class HtmlWriter : IDisposable

The HtmlWriter type exposes the following members.

Constructors
 NameDescription
Public methodHtmlWriter(TextWriter) Initialize a new instance of the HtmlWriter class.
Public methodHtmlWriter(Stream, Encoding) Initialize a new instance of the HtmlWriter class.
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Properties
 NameDescription
Public propertyWriterState Get the current state of the writer.
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Methods
 NameDescription
Public methodDispose Release all resource used by the HtmlWriter object.
Protected methodDispose(Boolean) Release the unmanaged resources used by the HtmlWriter and optionally releases the managed resources.
Public methodEquals
(Inherited from Object)
Protected methodFinalize Release unmanaged resources and perform other cleanup operations before the HtmlWriter is reclaimed by garbage collection.
(Overrides ObjectFinalize)
Public methodFlush Flush any remaining state to the output stream.
Public methodGetHashCode
(Inherited from Object)
Public methodGetType
(Inherited from Object)
Protected methodMemberwiseClone
(Inherited from Object)
Public methodToString
(Inherited from Object)
Public methodCode exampleWriteAttribute(HtmlAttribute) Write the attribute to the output stream.
Public methodCode exampleWriteAttribute(HtmlAttributeId, String) Write the attribute to the output stream.
Public methodCode exampleWriteAttribute(String, String) Write the attribute to the output stream.
Public methodWriteAttribute(HtmlAttributeId, Char, Int32, Int32) Write the attribute to the output stream.
Public methodWriteAttribute(String, Char, Int32, Int32) Write the attribute to the output stream.
Public methodWriteAttributeName(HtmlAttributeId) Write the attribute name to the output stream.
Public methodCode exampleWriteAttributeName(String) Write the attribute name to the output stream.
Public methodCode exampleWriteAttributeValue(String) Write the attribute value to the output stream.
Public methodWriteAttributeValue(Char, Int32, Int32) Write the attribute value to the output stream.
Public methodWriteEmptyElementTag(HtmlTagId) Write an empty element tag.
Public methodWriteEmptyElementTag(String) Write an empty element tag.
Public methodCode exampleWriteEndTag(HtmlTagId) Write an end tag.
Public methodWriteEndTag(String) Write an end tag.
Public methodWriteMarkupText(String) Write a string containing HTML markup directly to the output, without escaping special characters.
Public methodWriteMarkupText(Char, Int32, Int32) Write a buffer containing HTML markup directly to the output, without escaping special characters.
Public methodCode exampleWriteStartTag(HtmlTagId) Write a start tag.
Public methodWriteStartTag(String) Write a start tag.
Public methodCode exampleWriteText(String) Write text to the output stream, escaping special characters.
Public methodWriteText(String, Object) Write text to the output stream, escaping special characters.
Public methodWriteText(Char, Int32, Int32) Write text to the output stream, escaping special characters.
Public methodWriteToken Write a token to the output stream.
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Remarks
An HTML writer.
Example
C#
/// <summary>
/// Visits a MimeMessage and generates HTML suitable to be rendered by a browser control.
/// </summary>
class HtmlPreviewVisitor : MimeVisitor
{
    List<MultipartRelated> stack = new List<MultipartRelated> ();
    List<MimeEntity> attachments = new List<MimeEntity> ();
    string body;

    /// <summary>
    /// Creates a new HtmlPreviewVisitor.
    /// </summary>
    public HtmlPreviewVisitor ()
    {
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// The list of attachments that were in the MimeMessage.
    /// </summary>
    public IList<MimeEntity> Attachments {
        get { return attachments; }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// The HTML string that can be set on the BrowserControl.
    /// </summary>
    public string HtmlBody {
        get { return body ?? string.Empty; }
    }

    protected override void VisitMultipartAlternative (MultipartAlternative alternative)
    {
        // walk the multipart/alternative children backwards from greatest level of faithfulness to the least faithful
        for (int i = alternative.Count - 1; i >= 0 && body == null; i--)
            alternative[i].Accept (this);
    }

    protected override void VisitMultipartRelated (MultipartRelated related)
    {
        var root = related.Root;

        // push this multipart/related onto our stack
        stack.Add (related);

        // visit the root document
        root.Accept (this);

        // pop this multipart/related off our stack
        stack.RemoveAt (stack.Count - 1);
    }

    // look up the image based on the img src url within our multipart/related stack
    bool TryGetImage (string url, out MimePart image)
    {
        UriKind kind;
        int index;
        Uri uri;

        if (Uri.IsWellFormedUriString (url, UriKind.Absolute))
            kind = UriKind.Absolute;
        else if (Uri.IsWellFormedUriString (url, UriKind.Relative))
            kind = UriKind.Relative;
        else
            kind = UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute;

        try {
            uri = new Uri (url, kind);
        } catch {
            image = null;
            return false;
        }

        for (int i = stack.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
            if ((index = stack[i].IndexOf (uri)) == -1)
                continue;

            image = stack[i][index] as MimePart;
            return image != null;
        }

        image = null;

        return false;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Get a data: URI for the image attachment.
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>
    /// Encodes the image attachment into a string suitable for setting as a src= attribute value in
    /// an img tag.
    /// </remarks>
    /// <returns>The data: URI.</returns>
    /// <param name="image">The image attachment.</param>
    string GetDataUri (MimePart image)
    {
        using (var memory = new MemoryStream ()) {
            image.Content.DecodeTo (memory);
            var buffer = memory.GetBuffer ();
            var length = (int) memory.Length;
            var base64 = Convert.ToBase64String (buffer, 0, length);

            return string.Format ("data:{0};base64,{1}", image.ContentType.MimeType, base64);
        }
    }

    // Replaces <img src=...> urls that refer to images embedded within the message with
    // "file://" urls that the browser control will actually be able to load.
    void HtmlTagCallback (HtmlTagContext ctx, HtmlWriter htmlWriter)
    {
        if (ctx.TagId == HtmlTagId.Meta && !ctx.IsEndTag) {
            bool isContentType = false;

            ctx.WriteTag (htmlWriter, false);

            // replace charsets with "utf-8" since our output will be in utf-8 (and not whatever the original charset was)
            foreach (var attribute in ctx.Attributes) {
                if (attribute.Id == HtmlAttributeId.Charset) {
                    htmlWriter.WriteAttributeName (attribute.Name);
                    htmlWriter.WriteAttributeValue ("utf-8");
                } else if (isContentType && attribute.Id == HtmlAttributeId.Content) {
                    htmlWriter.WriteAttributeName (attribute.Name);
                    htmlWriter.WriteAttributeValue ("text/html; charset=utf-8");
                } else {
                    if (attribute.Id == HtmlAttributeId.HttpEquiv && attribute.Value != null
                        && attribute.Value.Equals ("Content-Type", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                        isContentType = true;

                    htmlWriter.WriteAttribute (attribute);
                }
            }
        } else if (ctx.TagId == HtmlTagId.Image && !ctx.IsEndTag && stack.Count > 0) {
            ctx.WriteTag (htmlWriter, false);

            // replace the src attribute with a "data:" URL
            foreach (var attribute in ctx.Attributes) {
                if (attribute.Id == HtmlAttributeId.Src) {
                    if (!TryGetImage (attribute.Value, out var image)) {
                        htmlWriter.WriteAttribute (attribute);
                        continue;
                    }

                    var dataUri = GetDataUri (image);

                    htmlWriter.WriteAttributeName (attribute.Name);
                    htmlWriter.WriteAttributeValue (dataUri);
                } else {
                    htmlWriter.WriteAttribute (attribute);
                }
            }
        } else if (ctx.TagId == HtmlTagId.Body && !ctx.IsEndTag) {
            ctx.WriteTag (htmlWriter, false);

            // add and/or replace oncontextmenu="return false;"
            foreach (var attribute in ctx.Attributes) {
                if (attribute.Name.Equals ("oncontextmenu", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                    continue;

                htmlWriter.WriteAttribute (attribute);
            }

            htmlWriter.WriteAttribute ("oncontextmenu", "return false;");
        } else {
            // pass the tag through to the output
            ctx.WriteTag (htmlWriter, true);
        }
    }

    protected override void VisitTextPart (TextPart entity)
    {
        TextConverter converter;

        if (body != null) {
            // since we've already found the body, treat this as an attachment
            attachments.Add (entity);
            return;
        }

        if (entity.IsHtml) {
            converter = new HtmlToHtml {
                HtmlTagCallback = HtmlTagCallback
            };
        } else if (entity.IsFlowed) {
            var flowed = new FlowedToHtml ();
            string delsp;

            if (entity.ContentType.Parameters.TryGetValue ("delsp", out delsp))
                flowed.DeleteSpace = delsp.Equals ("yes", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);

            converter = flowed;
        } else {
            converter = new TextToHtml ();
        }

        body = converter.Convert (entity.Text);
    }

    protected override void VisitTnefPart (TnefPart entity)
    {
        // extract any attachments in the MS-TNEF part
        attachments.AddRange (entity.ExtractAttachments ());
    }

    protected override void VisitMessagePart (MessagePart entity)
    {
        // treat message/rfc822 parts as attachments
        attachments.Add (entity);
    }

    protected override void VisitMimePart (MimePart entity)
    {
        // realistically, if we've gotten this far, then we can treat this as an attachment
        // even if the IsAttachment property is false.
        attachments.Add (entity);
    }
}
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