Issue while converting HTML to PDF using itextSharp for < symbol

Question

I am trying to convert HTML content to PDF using itextSharp in .net application using c#. While doing so m gettting my content trucated after '<' symbol. For conversion I am using following line:

HTMLWorker.ParseToList(new StringReader(htmlContent, null);

This is the code snippet with need to add referece 'itextsharp.dll' reference

Following is Code Snippet

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.IO;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf.draw;

namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            CreatePDF();
        }

        static void CreatePDF()
        {
           string fileName = string.Empty;

            DateTime fileCreationDatetime = DateTime.Now;

            fileName = string.Format("{0}.pdf", fileCreationDatetime.ToString(@"yyyyMMdd") + "_New" + fileCreationDatetime.ToString(@"HHmmss"));

            string pdfPath = "D:\\" + fileName;

            using (FileStream msReport = new FileStream(pdfPath, FileMode.Create))
            {
                //step 1
                using (Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 140f, 10f))
                {
                    try
                    {
                        PdfWriter pdfWriter = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, msReport);
                        //pdfWriter.PageEvent = new ConsoleApplication1.ITextEvents();

                        //open the stream
                        pdfDoc.Open();

                        {
                            Paragraph para = new Paragraph("Hello world. Checking Header Footer", new Font(Font.FontFamily.HELVETICA, 16));
                            para.Alignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
                            pdfDoc.NewPage();
                            string str = "<b>Try<</b>";

                            StringReader TheStream = new StringReader(str.ToString());

                            List<IElement> htmlElementsh = HTMLWorker.ParseToList(TheStream, null);

                            IElement htmlElementh = (IElement)htmlElementsh[0];
                            pdfDoc.Add((Paragraph)htmlElementh);
                        }

                        pdfDoc.Close();

                    }
                    catch (Exception ex)
                    {
                        //handle exception
                    }

                    finally
                    {

                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

Kindly use &lt; instead of < and use &gt; instead of >.