I've got a html element that looks like this:

<p>
<strong>Popular resonses: </strong>
bat, butterfly, moth
</p>

Html contains about all elements with <p> tag.

I need to extract <p> values (bat, butterfly, moth).

Thanks.

P.S

I've tried to parse with Matcher and Pattern but it did'n work. I'm using JSoup as parsing library.

CodePudding user response：

You can get your desired text by using -

Elements el = doc.select("p:has(strong)");
    for (Element e : el) {          
        System.out.println(e.ownText());
    }

This will find all the p elements in the html that contains also strong, and print the text that belongs only to the p but not to the strong -

bat, butterfly, moth

If you use e.text() instead, you will get all the text in the p element -

Popular resonses: bat, butterfly, moth

If you have only one such element you can also use -

Element e = doc.select("p:has(strong)").first();
System.out.println(e.ownText());

Which saves you the loop.