Java Jsoup line break issue

Question

I want to get this code;

<p>Text<br />
New Text<br />
Second Text<br />
Third Text</p>

With this code;

Elements pResult = p.getElementsByTag("p");
System.out.println(pResult.text());

I show this > Text New Text Second Text Third Text

But i want

<p>Text <br>New text<br>Second Text<br>Third Text</p>

Because of <br> tag

Possible duplicate of [How do I preserve line breaks when using jsoup to convert html to plain text?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5640334/how-do-i-preserve-line-breaks-when-using-jsoup-to-convert-html-to-plain-text/6031463#6031463) — edasssus, Apr 08 '16 at 11:27
I have no experience Using jsoup, but my guess is following: When you use .text(), this should return plain text content inside
tag, without tags. I think what you need to do is to use .html() function: pResult.html(), then replace all
inside your string with newline character and print it. (or you could just split string on
and print afterwards) — Tornike Shavishvili, Apr 08 '16 at 11:31
As suggested by @blindProgrammer following provide the output you want `System.out.println(pResult.html().replaceAll("
", "\n"))`. — SubOptimal, Apr 08 '16 at 11:39
Edit: as Documentation states, to obtain "
Text
New text
Second Text
Third Text
" <--this, you use following: pResult.outerHtml() — Tornike Shavishvili, Apr 08 '16 at 13:50

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 08 '16 at 11:30

Try like this :

 public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
String s="<p>Text<br /> New Text<br />Second Text<br />Third Text</p>";
        Document document = Jsoup.parse(s);
        document.outputSettings(new Document.OutputSettings().prettyPrint(false));
        document.select("br").append("\\n");
        document.select("p").prepend("\\n\\n");
        String s1 = document.html().replaceAll("\\\\n", "\n");
        System.out.println(Jsoup.clean(s1, "", Whitelist.none(), new Document.OutputSettings().prettyPrint(false)));
    }
}

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 08 '16 at 14:34

0

Try this code:

String s="<p>Text<br />\nNew Text<br />\nSecond Text<br />\nThird Text</p>";

System.out.println(Jsoup.parse(s).select("p").outerHtml());

OUTPUT

<p>Text<br> New Text<br> Second Text<br> Third Text</p>

Jsoup 1.8.3

answered Apr 08 '16 at 14:34

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