Inserting an HTML into a TextBox shape

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Received : 2007/07/25 10:41:50
Message : I want to insert an HTML text into a TextBox shape having Aspose.word rendering the HTML structure and building the text with the right formatting into that TextBox shape.
Unfortunately, the InsertHtml method works only for DocumentBuilder object - I could not find such for a regular shape (so I didn't find an easy way to insert HTML into shape), however, I tried building a dummy DocumentBuilder object and by looking at the results of the DocumentBuilder.InsertHtml method I could see that the HTML content is translated into multilpe run objects under doc.FirstSection.Body.FirstParagraph.Runs[...] - well, this is nice, I though of copying the run objects and inserting them into a paragraph in my TextBox shape, in that way I use a dummy DocumentBuilder that will do the rendering of HTML for me and than I'll copy the resulted run objects, right?
Unfortunately I could not find a way to copy the run objects. Regular assignment does not work since they have created based on different documents, Clone does not work either (trying to clone the whole paragraph) - So I end up looking for help,
>> What is the easiest way to insert an Html text into a TextBox shape that will draw it with the correct formatting?

Thanks.

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Hi,

You do not need to copy runs in this case. Just move the document builder's cursor into a textbox and insert your HTML:

Document doc = new Document();

Shape shape = new Shape(doc, ShapeType.TextBox);

Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph(doc);

Run run = new Run(doc);

paragraph.AppendChild(run);

shape.AppendChild(paragraph);

doc.FirstSection.Body.FirstParagraph.AppendChild(shape);

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

builder.MoveTo(shape.FirstParagraph.FirstChild);

builder.InsertHtml("Bold");

Hope this helps.

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This work if I want the whole textbox to be HTML based.
Now, assume that I already inserted something into the textbox and want to add the HTML data into the shape, is there a way to mark the location before the insertion (during the insertion of previous text) so I will be able to moveto into the exact location without knowing whether it is the first child or not? (I assume having possible multiple runs before)

Thanks.

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No problem at all. Just do

builder.MoveTo(shape.LastParagraph.LastChild);

instead of moving to the first child of the first paragraph.