Question

I have

<div id = top1>
   <div id topsub1>
   <ul class="student">
   <li>
    <a href="/thomas">Tom</a>
    </li>
    </div>
   <div id topsub2>
   <ul class="student">
   <li>
    <a href="/thomas1">Tom1</a>
    </li>
    </div>
 </div>

I want to get the href and text
So I did
Elements xx= select (div div ul li)

when I do foreach xx for y and if I do

string1= y.text(); //This is printing Tom
String2= y.attr(“href”) //This is always empty. I am not able to get /thomas?
I also tried y.attr(“a[href]”))

and also what is :
doc.select(“.studentnames > a”);?
does this mean that on the ID=studentnames get all the “a” correct???

Answer 1

What if you simply did Elements eles = doc.select("a[href]");? Also I believe that when using the attrib(...) method, you don’t pass in the tag, just the attribute name itself.

edit:
You state:

the issue with doing doc.select(“a[href]..there are many many attributes and hrefs..i want only that is next to student name..thats why i am doing immediately after I do text so that I can get – name of student and his website

Then refine result returned by your select by calling multiple selects sequentially or chaining them:

Elements eles = doc.select("ul.student").select("a[href]");

or perhaps (I’ve never done this):

Elements eles = doc.select("ul.student a[href]");

or even:

Elements eles = doc.select("div > div > ul.student > li > a[href]");