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Asked: 2026-06-03T22:08:46+00:00

I am using Nokogiri in a Rails 3 app. It ignores <br/> tags. I’d

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I am using Nokogiri in a Rails 3 app. It ignores 

<br/>

tags. I’d like to replace such tags with “, ” because they represent line breaks in addresses. How do I do this? I’ve tried the following, which doesn’t seem to help:

  doc.inner_html.gsub!("<br/>", ", ")
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  1. Editorial Team

    Simply:

    doc.css('br').each{ |br| br.replace ", " }

    Seen in action:

    require 'nokogiri'
doc = Nokogiri.HTML('<address>900 Magnolia Road<br/>Nederland, CO<br/>80466</address>')
puts doc.root
#=> <html><body><address>900 Magnolia Road<br>Nederland, CO<br>80466</address></body></html>

doc.css('br').each{ |br| br.replace ", " }
puts doc.root
#=> <html><body><address>900 Magnolia Road, Nederland, CO, 80466</address></body></html>

    If you want to be more careful and only replace the <br> inside an <address> tag (for example), then:

    doc.css('address > br').each{ |br| br.replace ", " }
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