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antonky
antonky

Reputation: 788

Don't show a tag inside of another tag in jsoup

The HTML 

<td> SCH4UE-01 : Chemistry <br> Block: 1 - rm. 315 </br></td>

I don't want the br tag, but I do want all of the other text (SCH4UE-01 : Chemistry)

CSS queries I have tried

td:eq(0) outputs: SCH4UE-01 : Chemistry Block: 1 - rm. 315

however

br outputs: Block: 1 - rm. 315

Upvotes: 1

Views: 110

Answers (1)

Frederic Klein
Frederic Klein

Reputation: 2876

The <br> tag is an empty tag which means that it has no end tag.

See: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_br.asp

Replacing your </br> tag with <br> (if you print the jsoup document you will see, that jsoup fixes such mistakes automatically) your <td>tag has four childnodes:

  • #text
  • br
  • #text
  • br

So the text SCH4UE-01 : Chemistry is the first childnode (element.childNode(0)).

Code

String htmlString = "<html><body><table><td> SCH4UE-01 : Chemistry <br> Block: 1 - rm. 315 <br></td></table></body></html>";

Document doc = Jsoup.parse(htmlString);

Elements tdElements = doc.select("td");

for (Element tdElement : tdElements){
    System.out.println(tdElement.childNode(0));
}

Output

 SCH4UE-01 : Chemistry

Upvotes: 1

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