Html Agility Pack AncestorsAndSelf

public IEnumerable < HtmlNode > AncestorsAndSelf()

Gets all the ancestors of the node and the node itself. AncestorsAndSelf method is a member of HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNode

Returns:

Returns a collection of all ancestor nodes and the node itself as well.

Example

The following example displays the name of the selected node and all of its ancestors.

var htmlDoc = new HtmlDocument();
htmlDoc.LoadHtml(html);
		
var node = htmlDoc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//u");

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

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public IEnumerable < HtmlNode > AncestorsAndSelf(string name)

Gets ancestors and the node itself with matching name. AncestorsAndSelf method is a member of HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNode

Parameters:

name: The name of the ancestor node.

Returns:

Returns a collection of all ancestor nodes and the node itself with matching name.

Example

The following example displays the name of the selected node and all of its ancestors with matching name.

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

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

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

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