The application discloses a method for playing a webpage image-text in a television. A DOM (
document object model) tree of an
HTML (
hypertext markup language) document is traversed to obtain text nodes and image nodes in the DOM tree; according to a preset
filtration policy, filtering away unwanted text nodes and image nodes, and reserving wanted text nodes and image nodes; resetting the reserved text nodes and image nodes, judging whether to-be-displayed content can be displayed in one screen of the television, and if so, according to the screen brightness of the television, dividing the to-be-displayed content into a plurality of
HTML documents, wherein each document corresponds to a
subpage and each
subpage can be displayed in one screen; and finally, rendering the
HTML documents into an image-text page, converting the image-text page to be in a picture format, converting the image-text page in the picture format to a
PAL (phase alteration line) video
signal of a program channel of the television, and playing the
signal in the screen of the television. Furthermore, the application discloses a
system for playing the webpage image-text in the television and a content publishing
server.