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**Category:** General\
**Created:** [28 May 2019 12:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/html-body-reading/11633 "2019-05-28T12:24:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:**  [@DillonW](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/DillonW)\
**Post date:** [28 May 2019 12:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/html-body-reading/11633/1 "2019-05-28T12:24:06Z")
Hi, I have a message sent to my email with a body of text(in html) format. When I view the complete message with debug it shows the following:
How can I get this in a readable form to extract the important components?
I have tried using a "html" node like follows:
But this doesn't return what I wish. I'd like to remove the "br"s between the text parts so I can put it into the msg.payload.
Any help is appreciated.
Dillon
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**Author:**  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [28 May 2019 12:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/html-body-reading/11633/2 "2019-05-28T12:37:41Z")
The brs don't stop you putting it into the payload. If you remove them you will just have a long string with them removed. What exactly do you want to end up with?
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**Author:**  [@JayDickson](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JayDickson)\
**Post date:** [28 May 2019 12:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/html-body-reading/11633/3 "2019-05-28T12:43:33Z")
it looks like you're passing it through an HTML node to break it down. What is your output?
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**Author:**  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [28 May 2019 13:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/html-body-reading/11633/4 "2019-05-28T13:04:57Z")
in theory msg.html should contain the html version and msg.payload the plain text version - but that will depend on the sending end and it's not always the case (but worth checking). As noted you could use the html node - but you could also use the split node (which would produce a series of messages rather than one array) - or a change node to replace `
` . or a function node with a small bit of code to slice it however you like.
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**Author:**  [@DillonW](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/DillonW)\
**Post date:** [28 May 2019 13:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/html-body-reading/11633/5 "2019-05-28T13:29:04Z")
Part of the email contains:
I'd like to extract these parts of the email and have them in objects.
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**Author:**  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [28 May 2019 15:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/html-body-reading/11633/6 "2019-05-28T15:32:25Z")
Once we get that chunk of the email out the CSV node may be able to handle it.
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**Author:**  [@DillonW](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/DillonW)\
**Post date:** [30 May 2019 11:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/html-body-reading/11633/7 "2019-05-30T11:30:02Z")
It needed some work, but I made it work using the change and string node, by removing the unnecessary bits. If needed I can post the solution flow