#54 Traversing the Dom within a series of columns

[Daniel]

Hi all, love this tool and thanks for putting this together. I have the following HTML:

A B Description of Link I'm trying to combine the 2nd and 3rd columns and also to pull the href link, along with the description. I am having trouble figuring out how to grab the "href" and the "Description of Link" I would appreciate if you could share how I can traverse the DOM to pull the href and the contents of the tag. In trying to use children() and next_sibling() I am not able to get the solution. Thank you.

[LogMANOriginal]

You probably figured it out in the mean time, but here is a complete example that will give you what you want.

<?php

include_once 'simple_html_dom.php';

$doc = <<<EOD
<tr>
    <td></td>
    <td  id="column2" class="style3">A</td>
    <td id="column2" class="style2">B</td>
    <td>
        <a href="#link")>Description of Link</a>
    </td>
</tr>
EOD;


$html = str_get_html($doc);


$href = $html->find('a', 0)->href;
$description = $html->find('a', 0)->innertext;

echo $href . PHP_EOL . $description . PHP_EOL;

// #link
// Description of Link

You can also find the docs for this library at https://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.io/