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Jericho removing Button elements

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Remi Rosenthal
2022-06-29
2022-06-29

  • Remi Rosenthal

    Remi Rosenthal - 2022-06-29

    Hi,

    I've noticed that the Jericho Renderer doesn't include Button elements in its toString(). This is presumably because button is mapped to a RemoveElementHandler in Renderer.
    I would be interested to hear the rationale behind this, but more importantly, is there a way to override this behaviour on my end?

    You can reproduce with something as simple as:
    <html><body><button>My Button</button></body></html>
    Which will result in an empty string.

    Many thanks

     

    Last edit: Remi Rosenthal 2022-06-29

  • Martin Jericho

    Martin Jericho - 2022-06-29

    Hi Remi,

    I didn't document anywhere why I made the decision to remove the content of button elements. In general I was copying the behaviour of how some email clients create pure text versions of HTML emails. Maybe I just thought they should be removed because all other form elements (INPUT, TEXTAREA etc) are removed. Or maybe I just didn't think much about it!

    I've modified the Render class in version 3.5 to include the content of BUTTON elements.

    Until version 3.5 is officially released, the development version is available here:
    http://jericho.htmlparser.net/temp/jericho-html-3.5-dev.zip

    The development version is always pretty much as stable as an official release. It has been a long time since an official release because the new WebBot functionality hasn't been documented yet, and I simply don't have time to work on it.

    Cheers
    Martin

     

  • Remi Rosenthal

    Remi Rosenthal - 2022-06-29

    Hi Martin,

    Thanks a lot for patching this. I now get expected behaviour!

    Kind regards,
    Remi

     

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