Class: HTMLParser

Summary

Allows easy HTML parsing with callbacks

Methods

Method	Description
Constructor	Creates an HTMLParser object.
parse	Parse the HTML. Can pass a string to control which tags you get callbacks for.

Events

Event	Description
onEndDoc	Called when the end of the document has been reached.
onGotComment	Called when the parser comes across an HTML comment.
onGotEndTag	Called when he parser comes across an end tag.
onGotTag	Called whenever the parser comes across a tag.
onGotText	Called when the parser has some text from between the tags

Examples

var g = new Grabber( "Grabber Test HTML Parser", "GBR" );

g.onRun = function( lp )
{
	this.test = "my test variable in grabber object";

	var hp = new HTMLParser( "<body onload=\"\"><img src=\"ignored\" /><p align=\"center\" align=\"middle\">nonsense<span class=\"bold\" align=\"center\">this is <!-- a bit of a comment --> some text</span></p></body>" );
	hp.m_grabber = this;
	hp.m_lp = lp;

	hp.onGotTag = function( tag, params )
	{
		var paramList = "";

		if( params.align )
		{
			if( typeof params.align == "object" )
			{
				for( var n = 0; n < params.align.length; n++ )
				{
					paramList += " align[" + n + "]=" + params.align[ n ] + ",";
				}
			}
			else
			{
				paramList += " align=" + params.align + ",";
			}
		}

		this.m_lp.writeLog( "Found tag: " + tag + paramList );
	}

	hp.onGotEndTag = function( tag )
	{
		this.m_lp.writeLog( "Found end tag: " + tag );
	}

	hp.onGotText = function( text )
	{
		this.m_lp.writeLog( "Found text: " + text );
	}

	hp.onEndDoc = function()
	{
		this.m_lp.writeLog( "Finished" );
	}


	hp.onGotComment = function( text )
	{
		this.m_lp.writeLog( "Found comment: " + text );
		this.m_lp.writeLog( "Accessing test variable: " + this.m_grabber.test );
	}

	hp.parse( "body span a p div" );

	return false;
}

Requirements

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(Last updated: February 13, 2020 12:43:30)

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