Jsoup: Extracting innertext from anchor tag

html, html-parsing, java, jsoup

Solution

You can access the text by calling the `text()`method on the element.

Document doc = Jsoup.parse("<div>  <a href=\"#\"> innerText  </a> </div>");
System.out.println(doc.html());
Elements rows = doc.getElementsByTag("a");
for (Element element : rows) {
    System.out.println("element = " + element.text());
}

btw. Using your posted code (and JSoup 1.8.1) produces the following output

<html>
    <head></head>
    <body>
        <div> 
            <a href="#"> innerText </a> 
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

Problem

Here's my problem. I have a html content: innerText I need to extract the "innerText". While trying this in Jsoup I found that the innertext goes outside the anchor tag when parsed by Jsoup. Here's my code ``` Document doc=Jsoup.parse("<div> <a href="#"> innerText </a> </div>"); System.out.println(doc.html()); ``` output: ``` <html> <head></head> <body> <div > <a href="#"></a>innerText </div> </body> </html> ``` why is "innerText" moved outside the anchor tag?

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