Question

This is currently vexing me.

Jsoup is including an extra line break in the returned string if the string includes <br />

eg.

String html ="TEST<br />TEST";

Jsoup.clean(html, org.jsoup.safety.Whitelist.basic());

returns

TEST\n<br />TEST

Any advice on how to avoid the inclusion of the troublesome \n?

Answer 1

Have you tried .text(); or .ownText(); from the Elements class?

//If you want the whole page
String url = "http://www.yourwebsite.com";
Document doc = Jsoup.connect(url).get();
System.out.println(doc.text());

//If you want some specific part of the page
Elements elems = doc.select("query");

for (Element element : elems) {
    System.out.println(element.text() + "\n");
    System.out.println(element.ownText() + "\n\n");
}

If each element returned < p>Hello< b> there< /b> now!< /p>

1. The method text(); would return Hello there now!
2. The method ownText(); would return Hello now!

Just to make it easier to understand: The .text(); will return the whole text within the tag you got. The ownText(); method will return the text from the tag itself, and not the text from its children.

About the query in doc.select("query");, you can search here for any pattern you want.