jsoup - Extracting HTML

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Overview

Element object represent a dom elment and provides various method to get the inner html as well as outer html (complete html) of a dom element.

Syntax

Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);
Element link = document.select("a").first();         

System.out.println("Outer HTML: " + link.outerHtml());
System.out.println("Inner HTML: " + link.html());

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.outerHtml() − outerHtml() method retrives the element complete html.
link.html() − html() method retrives the element inner html.

Example - Selecting Complete html of a Tag

JsoupTester.java

package com.tutorialspoint;

import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
import org.jsoup.select.Elements;

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>"
         + "<div id='imageDiv' class='header'><img name='google' src='google.png' />"
         + "<img name='yahoo' src='yahoo.jpg' />"
         +"</div>"
         +"</body></html>";
      Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);

      //a with href
      Elements links = document.select("a[href]");

      for (Element link : links) {
         System.out.println(link.outerHtml());
      }
   }
}

Verify the result

Compile and run the JsoupTester to verify the result −

<a href="www.google.com">Google</a>

Example - Getting Inner HTML of a tag

JsoupTester.java

package com.tutorialspoint;

import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
import org.jsoup.select.Elements;

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>"
         + "<div id='imageDiv' class='header'><img name='google' src='google.png' />"
         + "<img name='yahoo' src='yahoo.jpg' />"
         +"</div>"
         +"</body></html>";
      Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);

      //a with href
      Elements links = document.select("a[href]");

      for (Element link : links) {
         System.out.println(link.html());
      }
   }
}

Verify the result

Compile and run the JsoupTester to verify the result −

Google

Example - Selecting HTML of a DIV

JsoupTester.java

package com.tutorialspoint;

import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
import org.jsoup.select.Elements;

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>"
         + "<div id='imageDiv' class='header'><img key='google1' name='google' src='google.png' />"
         + "<img key='yahoo1' name='yahoo' src='yahoo.jpg' />"
         +"</div>"
         +"</body></html>";
      Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);

      // select divs
      Elements divs = document.select("div");

      for (Element div : divs) {
         System.out.println("Outer HTML: " + div.outerHtml());
		 System.out.println("Inner HTML: " + div.html());
      }
   }
}

Verify the result

Compile and run the JsoupTester to verify the result −

Outer HTML: <div id="sampleDiv">
 <a href="www.google.com">Google</a>
 <h3><a>Sample</a></h3>
 <h3></h3>
</div>
Inner HTML: <a href="www.google.com">Google</a>
<h3><a>Sample</a></h3>
<h3></h3>
Outer HTML: <div id="imageDiv" class="header">
 <img key="google1" name="google" src="google.png"><img key="yahoo1" name="yahoo" src="yahoo.jpg">
</div>
Inner HTML: <img key="google1" name="google" src="google.png"><img key="yahoo1" name="yahoo" src="yahoo.jpg">

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