how to access child node from node in htmlagility pack

Question

<html>
    <body>
        <div class="main">
            <div class="submain"><h2></h2><p></p><ul></ul>
            </div>
            <div class="submain"><h2></h2><p></p><ul></ul>
            </div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

I loaded the html into an HtmlDocument. Then I selected the XPath as submain. Then I dont know how to access to each tags i.e h2, p separately.

HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNodeCollection nodes = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div[@class=\"submain\"]");
foreach (HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNode node in nodes) {}

If I Use node.InnerText I get all the texts and InnerHtml is also not useful. How to select separate tags?

Oscar Mederos · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-18T13:28:18.313

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The following will help:

HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNodeCollection nodes = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div[@class=\"submain\"]");
foreach (HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNode node in nodes) {
    //Do you say you want to access to <h2>, <p> here?
    //You can do:
    HtmlNode h2Node = node.SelectSingleNode("./h2"); //That will get the first <h2> node
    HtmlNode allH2Nodes= node.SelectNodes(".//h2"); //That will search in depth too

    //And you can also take a look at the children, without using XPath (like in a tree):        
    HtmlNode h2Node = node.ChildNodes["h2"];
}

edited Oct 18 '13 at 13:28

answered Jun 10 '11 at 17:20

Oscar Mederos

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thanks for syntax ```node.SelectSingleNode("./h2")``` – Cyclion May 05 '21 at 10:13

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 14 '13 at 09:48

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You are looking for Descendants

var firstSubmainNodeName = doc
   .DocumentNode
   .Descendants()
   .Where(n => n.Attributes["class"].Value == "submain")
   .First()
   .InnerText;

edited Dec 14 '13 at 09:48

Radim Köhler

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answered Dec 14 '13 at 09:18

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 30 '12 at 22:19

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From memory, I believe that each Node has its own ChildNodes collection, so within your for…each block you should be able to inspect node.ChildNodes.

edited Mar 30 '12 at 22:19

Zhaph - Ben Duguid

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answered Jun 08 '11 at 18:32

Jay

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how to access child node from node in htmlagility pack

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