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jsoup - Extract HTML
jsoup - Extract HTML
Following example will showcase use of methods to get inner html and outer html after parsing an HTML String into a Document object.
Syntax
Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);
Element pnk = document.select("a").first();
System.out.println("Outer HTML: " + pnk.outerHtml());
System.out.println("Inner HTML: " + pnk.html());
Where
document − document object represents the HTML DOM.
Jsoup − main class to parse the given HTML String.
html − HTML String.
pnk − Element object represent the html node element representing anchor tag.
pnk.outerHtml() − outerHtml() method retrives the element complete html.
pnk.html() − html() method retrives the element inner html.
Description
Element object represent a dom elment and provides various method to get the html of a dom element.
Example
Create the following java program using any editor of your choice in say C:/> jsoup.
JsoupTester.java
import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
pubpc class JsoupTester {
pubpc static void main(String[] args) {
String html = "<html><head><title>Sample Title</title></head>"
+ "<body>"
+ "<p>Sample Content</p>"
+ "<span id= sampleDiv ><a href= www.google.com >Google</a>"
+ "<h3><a>Sample</a><h3>"
+"</span>"
+"</body></html>";
Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);
//a with href
Element pnk = document.select("a").first();
System.out.println("Outer HTML: " + pnk.outerHtml());
System.out.println("Inner HTML: " + pnk.html());
}
}
Verify the result
Compile the class using javac compiler as follows:
C:jsoup>javac JsoupTester.java
Now run the JsoupTester to see the result.
C:jsoup>java JsoupTester
See the result.
Outer HTML: <a href="www.google.com">Google</a> Inner HTML: GoogleAdvertisements