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jsoup - Set Text Content
jsoup - Set Text Content
Following example will showcase use of method to set, prepend or append text to a dom element after parsing an HTML String into a Document object.
Syntax
Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);
Element span = document.getElementById("sampleDiv");
span.text("This is a sample content.");
span.prepend("Initial Text.");
span.append("End Text.");
Where
document − document object represents the HTML DOM.
Jsoup − main class to parse the given HTML String.
html − HTML String.
span − Element object represent the html node element representing anchor tag.
span.text() − text(content) method replaces the element s content with the corresponding value.
span.prepend() − prepend(content) method adds the content before the outer html.
span.append() − append(content) method adds the content after the outer html.
Description
Element object represent a dom elment and provides various method to set, prepend or append html to 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>"
+ "<span id= sampleDiv ><a id= googleA href= www.google.com >Google</a></span>"
+"</body></html>";
Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);
Element span = document.getElementById("sampleDiv");
System.out.println("Outer HTML Before Modification :
" + span.outerHtml());
span.text("This is a sample content.");
System.out.println("Outer HTML After Modification :
" + span.outerHtml());
span.prepend("Initial Text.");
System.out.println("After Prepend :
" + span.outerHtml());
span.append("End Text.");
System.out.println("After Append :
" + span.outerHtml());
}
}
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 Before Modification : <span id="sampleDiv"> <a id="googleA" href="www.google.com">Google</a> </span> Outer HTML After Modification : <span id="sampleDiv"> This is a sample content. </span> After Prepend : <span id="sampleDiv"> Initial Text.This is a sample content. </span> After Append : <span id="sampleDiv"> Initial Text.This is a sample content.End Text. </span>Advertisements