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- jsoup - Using DOM Methods
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- jsoup - Extract Attributes
- jsoup - Extract Text
- jsoup - Extract HTML
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jsoup - Extract Attributes
Following example will showcase use of method to get attribute of a dom element after parsing an HTML String into a Document object.
Syntax
Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);
Element link = document.select("a").first();
System.out.println("Href: " + link.attr("href"));
Where
document − document object represents the HTML DOM.
Jsoup − main class to parse the given HTML String.
html − HTML String.
link − Element object represent the html node element representing anchor tag.
link.attr() − attr(attribute) method retrives the element attribute.
Description
Element object represent a dom elment and provides various method to get the attribute 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;
public class JsoupTester {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String html = "<html><head><title>Sample Title</title></head>"
+ "<body>"
+ "<p>Sample Content</p>"
+ "<div id='sampleDiv'><a href='www.google.com'>Google</a>"
+ "<h3><a>Sample</a><h3>"
+"</div>"
+"</body></html>";
Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);
//a with href
Element link = document.select("a").first();
System.out.println("Href: " + link.attr("href"));
}
}
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.
Href: www.google.com
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