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Decode Html Encoded Text

On December 16, 2016
Thomas Stensitzki | MVP
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Html, PowerShell
Script
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When migrating Html content from a CMS database or other sources you might find the Html as an Html encoded string.

Example:

<p><strong>Some Text</strong></p>

But you want to have the string look like this:

<p><strong>Some Text</strong></p>

Script

The following script is a simple PowerShell script to convert an exisiting file containing the Html encoded text and save the decoded string to a new output file.

param(
 [string]$InputFile,
 [string]$OutputFile
)
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web

Write-Output "Fetching $($InputFile)"

$fileContent = Get-Content $InputFile

Write-Output "Converting"

[System.Web.HttpUtility]::HtmlDecode($fileContent) | Out-File -FilePath $OutputFile -Encoding utf8 -Force

 

Usage

.\Convert-ToHtml.ps1 -InputFile '.\InputFile.txt' -OutputFile '.\Output.html'

 

Enjoy!

 

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Inline CSS with ConvertTo-Html

On April 22, 2016
Thomas Stensitzki | MVP
0 Comment
CSS, Html
Script
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The PowerShell script Get-Diskspace.ps1 uses a pretty basic inline CSS approach to generate a more nicely html email from a PowerShell output.

You can use the following description for your own PowerShell script.

First a new html block is configured and the inline CSS is embedded into the head tag.

# Some CSS to get a pretty report
# Variable containing the inline CSS and the full html head tag
$head = @'
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html><head><title>$($ReportTitle)</title>
<style type=”text/css”>
<!–
body {
    font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
h2{ clear: both; font-size: 100%;color:#354B5E; }
h3{
    clear: both;
    font-size: 75%;
    margin-left: 20px;
    margin-top: 30px;
    color:#475F77;
}
table{
    border-collapse: collapse;
    border: none;
    font: 10pt Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    color: black;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}
 
table td{
    font-size: 12px;
    padding-left: 0px;
    padding-right: 20px;
    text-align: left;
}
 
table th {
    font-size: 12px;
    font-weight: bold;
    padding-left: 0px;
    padding-right: 20px;
    text-align: left;
}
->
</style>
'@

The recurring data content is added to a global varibale using the -Fragment attribute. This ensures that no full html document data is being created.

$global:Html += $wmi | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment -PreContent "<h2>Server $($ServerName)</h2>"

Before sending the html result the full body html is generated by combinding the html fragments and the manually defined html head.

[string]$Body = ConvertTo-Html -Body $global:Html -Title "Status" -Head $head

Send-Mail -From $MailFrom -To $MailTo -SmtpServer $MailServer -MessageBody $Body -Subject $ReportTitle

Enjoy.

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