How to remove a specific tag from the entire html page using jsoup

dom, html, java, jsoup, tags

Solution

I recommend you use Jsoup selectors, for example

Document document = Jsoup.parse(html);
Elements selector = document.select("meta[name=GENERATOR]");

for (Element element : selector) {
    element.remove();
}

doc.html(); // returns String html with elements removed

Problem

i'm using jsoup 1.7.3 to edit some html files. what i need is to remove the following tags from the html file : ``` <meta name="GENERATOR" content="XXXXXXXXXXXXXX"> <meta name="CREATED" content="0;0"> <meta name="CHANGED" content="0;0"> ``` As you see its the tag, how can i do that, here what i've tried so far : ``` //im pretty sure that the <meta> tag is nested in the <header> but removing the whole header is bad practice. Document docsoup = Jsoup.parse(htmlin); docsoup.head().remove(); ``` what do you suggest ?

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