Problem with HTmlAgilityPack trying to get <li> tags

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I want to get 6 numbers in the circles in this php page. http://www.millipiyango.gov.tr/sonuclar/_cs_sayisal.php[^]
But when I try to get nodes li it return null. How can I fix this? My code is here.

C#

void cl_DownloadStringCompleted(object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
        {
            doc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
            doc.LoadHtml(e.Result);
            HtmlNodeCollection nodes=doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div[@id='sayisal-numaralar']//li");
            foreach(var item in nodes)
            {
              MessageBox.Show(item.InnerText);
            }
        }

Posted 24-Oct-15 12:05pm

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Updated 24-Oct-15 12:10pm

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Mario Z · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-24T21:09:00

You'll not be able to do this with HtmlAgilityPack, you see if you inspect the e.Result's HTML content you'll notice that it has the following:

HTML

<div class="cekilis" id="sayisal-numaralar">
    <!--
    <ul>
        <li>4</li>
        <li>17</li>
        <li>28</li>
        <li>32</li>
        <li>35</li>
        <li>42</li>
    </ul>
    -->
</div>

In other words at first the sayisal-numaralar div represents only a placeholder where the numbers will be added.
Now the one responsible in adding the numbers is the JavaScript located in the script tag (you can also find the JS code by inspecting the e.Result).
The problem you're faced with is that HtmlAgilityPack does not process or run the JS code, thus you'll have to use some other approach for example you can try using the WebBrowser Control[^].