jsoup - Using Selector Syntax

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Overview

The document.select(expression) method parses the given CSS selector expression to select a html dom element.

Syntax

Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);
// select images with src ending .png
Elements pngs = document.select("img[src$=.png]");

Where

document − document object represents the HTML DOM.
Jsoup − main class to parse the given HTML String.
html − HTML string

Select PNG Images

Elements pngs = document.select("img[src$=.png]");

Select div by class header

Element headerDiv = document.select("div.header").first();

Example - Selecting Hyperlinks

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("Href: " + link.attr("href"));
         System.out.println("Text: " + link.text());
      }
   }
}

Verify the result

Compile and run the JsoupTester to verify the result −

Href: www.google.com
Text: Google

Example - Selecting PNG Images

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);

      // img with src ending .png
      Elements pngs = document.select("img[src$=.png]");

      for (Element png : pngs) {
         System.out.println("Name: " + png.attr("name"));
      }
   }
}

Verify the result

Compile and run the JsoupTester to verify the result −

Name: google

Example - Selecting elements by CSS class

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);

      // div with class=header
      Element headerDiv = document.select("div.header").first();
      System.out.println("Id: " + headerDiv.id());
   
      // direct a after h3
      Elements sampleLinks = document.select("h3 > a"); 

      for (Element link : sampleLinks) {
         System.out.println("Text: " + link.text());
      }
   }
}

Verify the result

Compile and run the JsoupTester to verify the result −

Id: imageDiv
Text: Sample

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