How to remove a particular content inside a div using Hpricot

Question

I have the following html structure

  <div id="rn_answertext">
    <p>asdasdasdas</p>
    <p>asdasdasdas</p>
    <p>asdasdasdas</p>
    <h3>asdasdasdas</h3>
    <div id="test">Content to be excluded</div>
  </div>

What I need is, when I search for div id="rn_answertext" I need to get all the contents except that in the div with id=test

My current code is

  result = doc.search("div#rn_answertext").inner_html

Anyone please help.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '11 at 17:13

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First get the div you want, then find the div inside you'd like to remove:

div = (doc/"div#rn_answertext")
(div/"#test").remove
puts div.to_s

answered Jun 01 '11 at 17:13

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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div = doc.search("//div[@id='rn_answertext']")

div.search('//div[@id="test"]').remove.html

Will give you the rn_answertext div content except test div.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Jun 01 '11 at 18:02

suren

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How to remove a particular content inside a div using Hpricot

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