Select text node in a single element with multiple text nodes

Asked Aug 30 '20 at 11:42

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I am trying to select a single text node from an element with multiple text nodes.

I have tried so far without success:

#specifications-2 > div.tab-specifications > div[1]

#specifications-2 > div.tab-specifications > div:nth-child(1)

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edited Aug 30 '20 at 12:56

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asked Aug 30 '20 at 11:42

Stylianos Charalambous

You can't do that for text nodes. You will need to wrap them inside an element. – Mosia Thabo Aug 30 '20 at 11:45
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Does this answer your question? [Is there a CSS selector for text nodes?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5688712/is-there-a-css-selector-for-text-nodes) – Mosia Thabo Aug 30 '20 at 11:46
So, in short you don't have a `
` but textnodes. What do you mean by saying "I want to select"? Select means what exactly?
– Roko C. Buljan Aug 30 '20 at 11:46
Unfortunately, I can't modify the code, I just need to extract data from a website. – Stylianos Charalambous Aug 30 '20 at 11:47
I am creating a web crawler and I need to select those text nodes but each one separately – Stylianos Charalambous Aug 30 '20 at 11:48
That question was referring to a website where editing was possible – Stylianos Charalambous Aug 30 '20 at 11:49
Fetch the page data. Target the element containing the text and than you could use RegExp to retrieve all the needed parts. – Roko C. Buljan Aug 30 '20 at 11:51
Can you help me with the regexp please? – Stylianos Charalambous Aug 30 '20 at 11:52
@StylianosCharalambous sure. Create a jsFiddle.net with that specific DIV's contents – Roko C. Buljan Aug 30 '20 at 11:52
The contents of the div are not always the same though... This is for this specific element https://jsfiddle.net/cbernzkL/ – Stylianos Charalambous Aug 30 '20 at 11:55
@StylianosCharalambous https://regex101.com/r/LHcmdh/1 given a newline is used as separator. – Roko C. Buljan Aug 30 '20 at 11:57
Thank you for your help, unfortunately it doesn't work though. How can I split on the
? – Stylianos Charalambous Aug 30 '20 at 12:06
@StylianosCharalambous if you want you can get the element's `textContent`, than use `.split("\n")` to get the Array of lines, than you could simply split by the first occurrence of `:` and you'll get the desired Property : Value. – Roko C. Buljan Aug 30 '20 at 12:16
@StylianosCharalambous here's an example of the two ways: https://jsfiddle.net/eyb8qtr5/ – Roko C. Buljan Aug 30 '20 at 12:34

Select text node in a single element with multiple text nodes

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