Html Agility Pack Ancestors

public IEnumerable < HtmlNode > Ancestors()

Gets all the ancestors of the node. Ancestors method is a member of HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNode

Returns:

Returns a collection of all ancestor nodes of this element.

Example

The following example displays the name of all the ancestors.

var htmlDoc = new HtmlDocument();
htmlDoc.LoadHtml(html);

var node = htmlDoc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//b");

foreach (var nNode in node.Ancestors())
{
    if (nNode.NodeType == HtmlNodeType.Element)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(nNode.Name);
    }
}

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public IEnumerable < HtmlNode > Ancestors(string name)

Gets ancestors with matching name. Ancestors method is a member of HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNode

Parameters:

name: The name of the ancestor node.

Returns:

Returns a collection of all ancestor nodes of this element with matching name.

Example

The following example displays the name of the ancestors with matching name.

var htmlDoc = new HtmlDocument();
htmlDoc.LoadHtml(html);

var node = htmlDoc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//b");

foreach (var nNode in node.Ancestors("body"))
{
    if (nNode.NodeType == HtmlNodeType.Element)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Node name: " + nNode.Name);
        Console.WriteLine(nNode.InnerText);
    } 
}

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