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

[Barnaby C. <Ba...@ac...>]

Hi,

You should be able to do this using the HtmlPage.getFirstAnchorByText() method.  Good Luck,

-Barnaby

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Glanville, Jay" <Jay...@Na...>
Date:  Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:32:05 -0400

>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. ;-)
>
>--
>Jay Glanville
>Web Developer
>jay...@na...
>(613) 725-2030 x393
> 
>
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