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Get contents of HTML Viewer tab
Since R2025a
htmlText = getHTMLText(V)
htmlText = getHTMLText(V) returns the HTML contents of the specified HTML Viewer tab as a string.
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Display a page with the text "Hello World" in an HTML Viewer tab by using the web function.
"Hello World"
web
[stat,h] = web("text://<html><h1>Hello World</h1></html>");
Then display the HTML contents of the page.
htmlText = getHTMLText(h)
htmlText = "<html><head><link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" id="HTMLViewer_ThemeLink" .... ::selection { background: #1656a7cc; /* cc for 80% alpha */ color: #fff; } .ActiveSelection { background-color: #616161cc; color: #fff; } .PassiveSelection { background-color: #fff5bccc; color: inherit; } </style><h1>Hello World</h1></body></html>"
matlab.htmlviewer.HTMLViewer
HTML Viewer tab, specified as amatlab.htmlviewer.HTMLViewer.
HTML contents, returned as a string scalar.
Introduced in R2025a
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