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Asked: 2026-06-09T04:13:44+00:00

how can i fetch the tr which mention in code of this structure in

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how can i fetch the tr which mention in code of this structure in nokogiri of in html response 

<html>
  <body>
    <table>

    </table>

  <table>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td>
          <table>
            <tr></tr>
              <tr><td> wanna this text as output.</td></tr>
          </table>
         </td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
   </table>
  </body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    I prefer using the CSS accessors as they’re more forgiving. Using your HTML sample, I’d use:

    irb(main):026:0> doc.search('table table tr').last.text
" wanna this text as output."

    Alternately, the XPATH accessor is:

    irb(main):042:0> doc.search('//table//table//tr').last.text
" wanna this text as output."

    You’re looking for the nested table containing multiple rows. You want the last row.

    Be wary whenever you look at the HTML inside a browser and see a <table><tbody> combination. Browsers do a lot of code fix-up, which can result in tags that are not there when you retrieve the HTML directly and pass it into a parser. And, those non-existing tags you see in the browser’s output will throw off your CSS or XPath access when you add them in. In particular, <tbody> is a real common problem.

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