[Htmlunit-user] How to get the contents of an anchor?

[Glanville, J. <Jay...@Na...>]

Hello all.  Nice new list!

I have a question or two for the community:

There is an HTMLPage.getAnchorByHref() function, and an
HTMLPage.getAnchorByName() function, but there isn't an
HTMLPage.getAnchorByText() function.  The reason I need this is because the
name attribute isn't used, and I can't guarantee what the href value will be
(it will contain the user's id, which is dynamically created).

I know that the web app will reply with something like this:

    <a href=".../someJsp.jsp?id=66">Edit John</a>

So, I thought to myself, I'd write a utility method that uses the
HTMLPage.getAnchors() method, goes through the list of resulting HTMLAnchor
objects looking for something with the content of "Edit John".  However, I
can't figure out how to get the content of an A element out of the
HTMLAnchor object.

So, question one: is there an easy way to get an HTMLAnchor object out of an
HTMLPage by querying based on the content of the tag?

Question two (if question one forces me to write my utility method): how do
I get the content of an A tag out of the HTMLAnchor object?

Thankx

JDG

PS: Hopefully enough of the designers mailing list has signed up to the
users list so that there is enough of a population to read my query. ;-)

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Jay Glanville
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