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Automate removal of div/span attributes for code clean-up and easier merging
<span class="SpellingError SCXO166867203 BCX8" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-repeat:repeat-x;background-position:left bottom;">bv</span><span class="...
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How can one enable/implement a full text search of any of a DOM node's or the entire document's text-content?
I've stumbled upon a technical test in which i have to count occurrences of words inside an HTML body. I have to avoid script tags and comments, these are the unique conditions from the problematic.
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How to detect that a text node is inside a tag
I have html file
<div>1. <span id="el1"> hello </span> world</div>
<div>
<span id="el2"> first part</span>
<span ...
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Extract text from Text Node using XPath
I am new to XPath and trying to capture the values "Time: " and "13:45" from the following HTML snippet. Any help or suggestion will be really useful. Thank you!
<div class=&...
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GraphQL Query error with Contentful and Netlify
I'm not an expert coder but have this error in my Netlify Account where I am trying to update code and such and keep getting this error on my builds.
The error is :
GraphQLError: Field "...
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DOM Operation Unsuccessful - Show HTML in Element
Working code here is mixed with non-working code. The code works up until the line where it commands the innerText to be of
x.innerHTML.substring(3,-3)
This is the function I am calling on a click ...
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Adding TextNode to HTML element with appendChild()
I am trying to create a simple "Shopping List" whereby the user types in the name of the items and then click the "add to List" button to add the items to the list, which it will ...
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Convert [Object text] to plain text in JavaScript
i have following code:
const x = document.createTextNode('Helloooo')
document.body.insertAdjacentText('beforebegin', x)
and after execution i see something like [object Text].
My question is how do ...
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Python - Getting text using selenium from text node
I'm trying to scrape some information from a website using Selenium and Python and sometimes there's texts like this HZS stonks remaining... that does not have any name or label that I can get the ...
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Replace mutation target text node with a span element
I am using MutationObserver to track character changes in my rich text editor. Everytime a text is edited, the mutation callback method is called with the list of mutation records. The mutation target ...
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How to get the text before & after the hyperlink using Selenium and Xpath
I am trying to find cases using Xpath/Selenium where there is no white-space before the hyperlink.
e.g.
<p>Click on this<a href="#">link</a>to access the data</p>`
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How to extract the text "152" from the textnode using Selenium
I need to extract the xpath for the number 152. The xpath that I created extracts the text after 152 which is "Test" but excludes the number 152. I need to get this count.
I am using below ...
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why can't I insert text object into an element's innerHTML
we can assign the input value to a variable and then we're assingning that variable to an element's innerHTML, likewise why can't I insert text object into an element's innerHTML??
eg code:
x = ...
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How to access text in a website using Java Selenium
How to access text in a website using Java Selenium?
HTML snapshot:
Can someone explain to me how to access the demouser and email id using java selenium in the above picture
https://phptravels.com/...
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JavaScript getting innerHtml for all text nodes in nested elements [duplicate]
Need to process text inside uncertain layers of nested nodes using following function:
function processTextNodesIn(elem) {
if (elem) {
for (var nodes = elem.childNodes, i = nodes.length; i--;) {
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what is the difference between <p> and text nodes?
i'm learning HTML, and it is not clear yet to me what is the difference in using a text node or a <p> element.
more precisely, what are the advantages and disavantages of using a <p> ...
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Adding pictures to choices in a text adventure game
I am very new to the community and forgive me if I misword things but! I'm currently working on an text adventure game and I was wondering if it was possible to add pictures to specific choices.
I ...
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How can I get only the content of text nodes (not nested tags) from an HTML tag element in JS?
Suppose I have
<div id="mydiv">
<span>foo</span>
<span>bar</span>
bob
</div>
Is there a JavaScript function/property which will return &...
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How can set value of type Text node for Attribute of html elements
according to Text element document in MDN Value of Attr Node Can be of type Text element.
The Text interface represents the textual content of Element or Attr.
But how can i set value of a DOM ...
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Random TextNode appearing in Django authentication templates
I am using custom templates with django.contrib.auth.urls and I've noticed that in the top left corner I have plain text appearing that isn't part of my template e.g. "Password Reset" on the ...
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Javascript, append node adds whole array instead of last element
So I'm still learning javascript and for my first to do list project I've gotten to the point where I can add the array to the HTML page but instead of taking the last element and adding it it adds ...
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  not displaying properly in javascript [duplicate]
I'm trying to add lines to my page using javascript. I'm eventually planning on generating ascii art from it, but that's besides the point. For some reason, the text | &...
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How to get specific text that belongs to div class
<div class="col_5">
<br>
<i class="phone">
:: Before
</i>
0212 / 897645
<br>
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Append child same text node is not working
I found the answer.
Insert HTML element two (or more) times using JavaScript
But I need in depth knowledge about this. How does this happened without for loop or cloning?
let strong = document....
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How to query text-nodes from DOM, find markdown-patterns, replace matches with HTML-markup and replace the original text-node with the new content?
Markdown-like functionality for tooltips
Problem:
Using Vanilla JavaScript I want to:
Change this:
<div>
<p>
Hello [world]{big round planet we live on}, how is it [going]{verb ...
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2
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Update textNode with setInterval and For Loop. Something not working
I am trying to solve this question from w3 resources.
QUESTION: Write a JavaScript program to find 1st January is being a Sunday between 2014 and 2050.
I tried solving it and attached the code below....
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MarkJS does not work on last items in textnode
Using MarkJS, I run into this issue that the last word in the text often does not get highlighted. This happens when I'm using contenteditable div but I'm unsure how or when exactly this happens. See ...
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JS for-loop + if-statement: Catching last occurrence while conditionally updating text node
I have an array with a number of paragraphs which are to be placed inside a container until that container is »full«. Whatever does not fit into this container is to be placed into a separate ...
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how can i change the background colour for every 'e' character in all of these names\/
I would like the output to look like this:
stephen
peter
ben
but with the 'e' characters having a background colour. Is this possible using the below code and some javascript?
<!DOCTYPE html>...
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Typescript: The type of TextNode
If you write below code:
const e = document.body.firstChild;
if (e.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE)
console.log(e.data);
You will get this error on e.data:
TS2339: Property 'data' does not exist on ...
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How to scrape "raw" text-nodes between named elements with Cheerio
Cheerio does not like html without proper tags (who does, really?). I'm trying to scrape some menus and the content i want is between elements in the html. Is there a way to parse each of these and ...
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Are there faster ways for collecting all text nodes than using NodeIterator?
The goal is to collect all text nodes that are direct or indirect ancestors of the body element that meet certain criteria.
The problem is that collecting nodes via the method nextNode of a ...
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Comparing different DOM nodes which ones are more performant?
Trying to reduce the amount of DOM nodes I did some research on this, but have not found any comparing numbers, like is it better to use two DOM elements instead of two pseudo-elements or is it better ...
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How to find/get the preceding-sibling node of a text node?
So I'm trying to get the span node in the html below using xpath, and the only things I want to be used in the xpath are the text node "follower" and the span node itself, not any other nodes.
&...
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What is considered a text node?
Generally if there is text between tags in HTML, it becomes a text node. However, this is not always the case. Consider this example:
<p>
<a href="hello.html">hello</a> <a href=...
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How are empty text-nodes processed?
If i apply the following xslt
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template ...
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insertBefore on multiple elements only work with the last one
I have a form with lots of input elements and there's nothing telling the user which fields are required. The problem is that I don't have access to its HTML code.
So I'm writing this JavaScript:
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Text nodes on JavaScript sometimes don't merge
When merging 3 text nodes in 3 different paragraphs, the first two ps don't merge in one of the text nodes. It should concatenate the name Robert in between two other text nodes. It only works on the ...
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How to manipulate a text node whose parent is coming null
I am parsing a website and I get an element like this
<td>
<span class="label">Hometown/High School:</span>
" ...
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How to make text nodes with new lines in it without using "style=white-space: pre"?
I'm trying to get a textnode with new lines in it (my text contains \n and x0a). I found the way to do this, using white-space: pre, and it works, but the problem is that the content doesn't fit to ...
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How can we get text node using dom4j
When we parse an XML document like
<entry>
Sometext
</entry>
using Javax.xml.Parsers.DocumentBuilder, we can always get the text node by
Document doc = ...
Node entry = doc....
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Javascript find-and-replace code in need of correction
The following code, included in the header of a website, contains errors. I think the intention is clear by the code, but that it contains syntactical and/or other errors? Please correct.
Edit 2: ...
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Jsoup. Print all text nodes in order
I want to parse this with Jsoup (this is a simplification, I would be parsing entire web pages)
<html><body><p>A<strong>B</strong>C<strong>D</strong>E</p&...
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JavaScript - Appending element node to text node parent
I am trying to add a new element to the parent of a text node, however all my attempts are not working. I want to extract some text from a text node and convert it into a <a> tag, then add that ...
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Using jQuery to find matching text in any child text node?
I'm a bit rusty on my jQuery (been a few years!) I have to assume this has been asked 100 times but I'm not searching for the right terms it seems.
I'm trying to grab all of the descendant text nodes ...
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XSLT: how to match exact text value within an element and replace
I need to find a specific text value within a document,'method'and for each instance replace that text value 'method' with the following:
element to replace method
This 'method' value can appear ...
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JSoup add or replace style to html TextNode
The snip of code below comes from a very large document with all types of tags. I can extract and change things to what I want including working with checkboxes. What I can't seem to do is change and ...
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How do I change the innerText on the li element with JavaScript
This code is after the browser's loaded. I need to change the li class buddyName - "Strider" to "Aragon".
<script src="./scripts/fellowship.js"></script>
<main>
<section id="...
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jQuery doesn't recognize identical textnodes (sometimes)
I wanted to use jQuery to tweak the copy-mechanism. I noticed that when the anchor and focus nodes of a selection were the same, the corresponding jQuery objects (compared using the .is method) were ...
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Filter by class names for changing text, using Javascript TreeWalker
Following that discussion, I'd like to understand how to use TreeWalker to change text on textNodes filtered by class names.
I'd like to replace all numbers with "x" on <p class="french"> only.
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