Forms Data Controls :: REpeater How To Extract Html Tags And Show Contents

Repeater data rendering problem

im using Visual Web Developer Express2005 and language: VB

Example Image of my forum thread that im working:

i encircled in color red the part where i assign the 'content' as you can see above.here EXAMPLE of code in my repeater that populate a <td>(inserting data FROM my database) from my TableField('content')

[Code]....

the part that i encircled in the image above was the data on my tableField named--> 'content'.

The idea was to show not the whole content but to show Only some part of it. example is to show only the 1st 300chars or 100 words.

i tried this code which shows the fist 1-100 chars. [Code]....

Problem is the data i stored in the TableField('content') has other html tagsExample my Tablefield('content') has the following data.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><span style="font-size: x-small">All hands worked in the preparation..............

When i use the code .tostring.tosubstring(1, 100) it shows: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA"><span style="font-size: x-small">All hands worked in the preparation..................

instead of starting at: All hands worked in the preparation.......Is there a way that i could extract first the html tags then use the
.string.tosubstring(1, 100) to make it work.I use the code below temporarily to generate the 'content' as showed in the image above. i limit the height of the lable to 100px which does the trick. but i know its not a good method thats why im trying to look for other methods.

<asp:Label runat="server" Height="100PX" Width="615px"><%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Content")%></asp:Label>

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