#63 Match elements that don't contain a certain value

Could you add an attribute selector that "Matches elements that have the specified attribute and don't contain a certain value", ie. in this case, match all paragraphs except those who contain goo?

$html = str_get_html('<p class="foo goo">Hello</p><p class="foo bar">Dear</p><p class="bar car">World</p>');
foreach($html->find("p[class!=goo]") as $p)
  printf("%s\n", $p->innertext);

[LogMANOriginal]

Good idea.

However, != is already supported. It checks if an attribute doesn't match the specified value (exact match). In your case this doesn't work, because you need to invert ~= (space-separated list of values).

CSS has the :not() pseudo-class for that:

$html->find("p:not([class~=goo])")

I'll see what I can do...

[LogMANOriginal]

Master now supports the negation pseudo-class (CSS Level 3):

<?php
include_once 'simple_html_dom.php';

$html = str_get_html('<p class="foo goo">Hello</p><p class="foo bar">Dear</p><p class="bar car">World</p>');
foreach($html->find("p:not([class~=goo])") as $p)
    printf("%s\n", $p->innertext);
// Dear
// World

This should do what you need.

[de0e10]

[Anonymous]

Very nice! This is most useful. Feel free to close this issue and I'll reopen it if I see any problems!

[Anonymous]

How do I do find p tags whose class contains neither foo nor bar?

$html->find("p:not([class~=foo]) # excludes foo, but includes bar

[Anonymous]

DELETE THIS FEATURE REQUEST