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Asked: 2026-06-18T00:56:22+00:00

I’m pretty new to the DOMDocument class and can’t seem to find an answer

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I’m pretty new to the DOMDocument class and can’t seem to find an answer for what i’m trying to do.

I have a large html file and i want to grab the link from an element based on the anchor text.

so for example

$html = <<<HTML
<div class="main">
    <a href="http://link.com" target="blank" ><span><font style="color: #e7552c;"><img src="http://images.com/spacer.gif"/>Keyword</font></span></a>
    other text
</div>
HTML;

// domdocument
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($html);

i want to get the value of the href attribute of any element that has the text keyword. Hope that was clear

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  1. Editorial Team
    $html = <<<HTML
<div class="main">
    <a href="http://link.com" target="blank" ><span><font style="color: #e7552c;"><img src="http://images.com/spacer.gif"/>Keyword</font></span></a>
    other text
</div>
HTML;

$keyword = "Keyword";

// domdocument
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($html);
$as = $doc->getElementsByTagName('a');
foreach ($as as $a) {
    if ($a->nodeValue === $keyword) {
        echo $a->getAttribute('href'); // prints "http://link.com"
        break;
    }
}
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