Question

doc = Jsoup.parse(html2);
Whitelist whitelist = new Whitelist();
Whitelist.simpleText().addTags("table","td", "tr","tbody");
Cleaner cleaner = new Cleaner(whitelist);
cleaner.clean(doc);

Elements gradesTableBody = doc.select(".user-grade").select("tbody").select("tr");
Log.d("output", gradesTableBody.html());

the output html still contains <img> tags etc. the cleaner does not work. What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

Cleaner.clean returns a new document (which you currently just throw away).

You need to do

doc = cleaner.clean(doc);
^^^^^

Also, these lines doesn’t make sense:

Whitelist whitelist = new Whitelist();
Whitelist.simpleText().addTags("table","td", "tr","tbody");

I think you may want to do

Whitelist whitelist = Whitelist.simpleText().addTags("table","td", "tr","tbody");