Question

Assuming several multiclass divs as demonstrated in the following HTML:

<div class="class_one class_two class_three classfour classfive classsix">

<div class="class_one class_two class_three classfour classfive">

<div class="class_one class_two class_three classfour classsix">

Is there a single Jsoup select expression that will select all 3 of them?

To clarify, thinking that the “lowest common denominator” will select all 3, I tried the following:

div[class=class_one class_two class_three classfour] 

But it selected none!

On the other hand, using the full multiselect syntax works, but it can only select one of the above, e.g.:

div[class=class_one class_two class_three classfour classfive classsix]

Is there a way to select all 3 of them, using a single Jsoup select statement?

Answer 1

This is not specific to Jsoup, but to CSS. The [attribute=name] selector does an exact match. Even the ordering matters. You want to use the .classname selector here instead. The following should work:

Elements divs = document.select("div.class_one.class_two.class_three.classfour");
// ...

Note that ordering of the classnames doesn’t matter here. This selector selects all <div> elements which has all of the given classnames present.

See also:

• Jsoup selector syntax
• Jsoup Selector API javadoc