HTML parsing using Jsoup Java

Question

 <select id="list">
 <option value="0">First</option>
 <option value="1">Second</option>
 <option value="2">Third</option>
 </select>

For the above html content how do I make use of Jsoup to parse and get the text as

  First Second Third

When I use

Document doc=Jsoup.parse(HTMLText);
String text=doc.text();
System.out.println(text);

I get something like this

FirstSecondThird

ollo · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-19 22:58:50Z

1

You are already very close to the solution; just select the elements you need and get their text:

    final String html = " <select id=\"list\">\n"
            + " <option value=\"0\">First</option>\n"
            + " <option value=\"1\">Second</option>\n"
            + " <option value=\"2\">Third</option>\n"
            + " </select>";

    Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html);
    String text = doc.select("option").text(); // Select all 'option' tags --> get text of them

    System.out.println(text);

Result:

First Second Third

answered Feb 19, 2014 at 22:58

ollo

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