Filtering out content with style display:none in an XPath expression

Question

I'm trying to parse with lxml in python and this is my output ``` text1 text3 text4 ``` Thought I was smart enough to use the following ``` tree = tr.xpath("//*[contains(@style,'inline')]/text()") ``` But then I thought I would only see text1. What I want is to see text3 and text4 too so that the output will be ['text1', 'text3', 'text4'] Can anyone send me to the right direction of doing it?

Accepted Answer

Explicitly exclude anything with `display:none`:

```
tree = tr.xpath("//*[not(contains(@style,'display:none'))]/text()")
```

That said -- this is only a distant approximation of what a browser would actually do; you'd want to be driving an actual browser (as with Selenium, embedding APIs, or the like) if you required strictly accurate results.

Filtering out content with style display:none in an XPath expression

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