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Following example will showcase use of method to set, prepend or append html to a dom element after parsing an HTML String into a Document object.
Syntax
Document document = Jsoup.parse(html); Element div = document.getElementById("sampleDiv"); div.html("<p>This is a sample content.</p>"); div.prepend("<p>Initial Text</p>"); div.append("<p>End Text</p>");
Where
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document − document object represents the HTML DOM.
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Jsoup − main class to parse the given HTML String.
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html − HTML String.
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div − Element object represent the html node element representing anchor tag.
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div.html() − html(content) method replaces the element”s outer html with the corresponding value.
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div.prepend() − prepend(content) method adds the content before the outer html.
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div.append() − append(content) method adds the content after the outer html.
Description
Element object represent a dom elment and provides various method to set, prepend or append html to a dom element.
Example
Create the following java program using any editor of your choice in say C:/> jsoup.
JsoupTester.java
import org.jsoup.Jsoup; import org.jsoup.nodes.Document; import org.jsoup.nodes.Element; public class JsoupTester { public static void main(String[] args) { String html = "<html><head><title>Sample Title</title></head>" + "<body>" + "<div id=''sampleDiv''><a id=''googleA'' href=''www.google.com''>Google</a></div>" +"</body></html>"; Document document = Jsoup.parse(html); Element div = document.getElementById("sampleDiv"); System.out.println("Outer HTML Before Modification :n" + div.outerHtml()); div.html("<p>This is a sample content.</p>"); System.out.println("Outer HTML After Modification :n" + div.outerHtml()); div.prepend("<p>Initial Text</p>"); System.out.println("After Prepend :n" + div.outerHtml()); div.append("<p>End Text</p>"); System.out.println("After Append :n" + div.outerHtml()); } }
Verify the result
Compile the class using javac compiler as follows:
C:jsoup>javac JsoupTester.java
Now run the JsoupTester to see the result.
C:jsoup>java JsoupTester
See the result.
Outer HTML Before Modification : <div id="sampleDiv"> <a id="googleA" href="www.google.com">Google</a> </div> Outer HTML After Modification : <div id="sampleDiv"> <p>This is a sample content.</p> </div> After Prepend : <div id="sampleDiv"> <p>Initial Text</p> <p>This is a sample content.</p> </div> After Append : <div id="sampleDiv"> <p>Initial Text</p> <p>This is a sample content.</p> <p>End Text</p> </div> Outer HTML Before Modification : <span>Sample Content</span> Outer HTML After Modification : <span>Sample Content</span>
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