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Asked: 2026-05-24T16:16:02+00:00

I have a document which look like this: <div id=block> <a href=http://google.com>link</a> </div> I

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I have a document which look like this:

<div id="block">
    <a href="http://google.com">link</a>
</div>

I can’t get Nokogiri to get me the value of href attribute. I’d like to store the address in a Ruby variable as a string.

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    html = <<HTML
  <div id="block">
    <a href="http://google.com">link</a>
  </div>
HTML
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(html)
doc.xpath('//div/a/@href')
#=> [#<Nokogiri::XML::Attr:0x80887798 name="href" value="http://google.com">]

    Or if you wanna be more specific about the div:

    >> doc.xpath('//div[@id="block"]/a/@href')
=> [#<Nokogiri::XML::Attr:0x80887798 name="href" value="http://google.com">]
>> doc.xpath('//div[@id="block"]/a/@href').first.value
=> "http://google.com"
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