How to only retrieve body field value using GetItemById?

Question

I am making application page that add, edit, delete the list items.

Now I want to make Edit page, and I retrieved the Title and Body value.

But in body value, it returned like this.

<div class="ExternalClassD0DCC2B7E533459DA80922D67FE8A7A4"><p>Test 2​</p></div>

I don`t want to see div tag. How can I do that?

My code is below.

private void DisplaySelectedListItem()
{
    string siteUrl = SPContext.Current.Web.Url;

    int id = int.Parse(Request.QueryString["ID"]);

    using (SPSite spSite = new SPSite(siteUrl))
    {
       using (SPWeb web = spSite.OpenWeb())
       {
          SPList list = web.GetListFromUrl("Lists/List/AllItems.aspx");
          SPListItem item = list.GetItemById(id);
          txtTitle.Text = item["Title"].ToString();
          txtBody.Text = item["Body"].ToString();
        }
     }
}

Answer 1

Try below code if you want to keep using the body as rich text field:

private void DisplaySelectedListItem()
{
    string siteUrl = SPContext.Current.Web.Url;

    int id = int.Parse(Request.QueryString["ID"]);

    using (SPSite spSite = new SPSite(siteUrl))
    {
       using (SPWeb web = spSite.OpenWeb())
       {
          SPList list = web.GetListFromUrl("Lists/List/AllItems.aspx");
          SPListItem item = list.GetItemById(id);
          txtTitle.Text = item["Title"].ToString();
          SPFieldMultiLineText field = (SPFieldMultiLineText)item.Fields["Body"]; 
          txtBody.Text = field.GetFieldValueAsText(item["Body"]);         
        }
     }
}

Reference - SPField.GetFieldValueAsText

Or as using SPUtility as below:

private void DisplaySelectedListItem()
{
    string siteUrl = SPContext.Current.Web.Url;

    int id = int.Parse(Request.QueryString["ID"]);

    using (SPSite spSite = new SPSite(siteUrl))
    {
       using (SPWeb web = spSite.OpenWeb())
       {
          SPList list = web.GetListFromUrl("Lists/List/AllItems.aspx");
          SPListItem item = list.GetItemById(id);
          txtTitle.Text = item["Title"].ToString();
          string bodyValue = item["Body"].ToString();
          txtBody.Text = SPHttpUtility.ConvertSimpleHtmlToText(bodyValue, bodyValue.Length);       

        }
     }
}

For the above code, you need to add Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities reference.

Reference - SPHttpUtility.ConvertSimpleHtmlToText

Else

In your list, make sure that the Multiple lines of text column setting is set to plain text

• Go to list setting
• click on the column name.
• Beside Additional Column Settings, Check Plain text

This will remove the rich text and automatically it becomes plain text. If you do this, no code change will be required.