Parent of htmlagilitypack text node is select instead of option?

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Question

Using htmlagility, I am searching for text nodes in a dom structure consisting of a select.

<select>
  <option>
    one
  </option>
  <option>
    two
  </option>
</select>

Those nodes parents seems to be the

<select>

instead of an

<option>

Why?

using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using HtmlAgilityPack;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

namespace Foo.Test
{
  [TestClass]
  public class HtmlAgilityTest
  {
    [TestMethod]
    public void TestTraverseTextNodesInSelect()
    {
      var html = "<select><option>one</option><option>two</option></select>";

      var doc = new HtmlDocument();
      doc.Load(new StringReader(html));

      var elements = doc.DocumentNode.Descendants().Where(n=>n.Name == "#text");

      Assert.AreEqual(2, elements.Count());
      Assert.AreEqual("select", elements.ElementAt(0).ParentNode.Name);
      Assert.AreEqual("select", elements.ElementAt(1).ParentNode.Name);
    }
  }
}
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7/22/2014 11:17:46 AM

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Accepted Answer

That's because HtmlAgilityPack drop closing <option> tag by default. HAP sees your HTML like this :

Console.WriteLine(doc.DocumentNode.OuterHtml);
//result :
//<select><option>one<option>two</select>

And as mentioned in the linked question above, you can alter that behavior by calling following line before initiating the HtmlDocument :

HtmlNode.ElementsFlags.Remove("option");
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5/23/2017 10:25:04 AM

Popular Answer

   [TestMethod]
    public void TestTraverseTextNodesInSelect()
    {
      HtmlNode.ElementsFlags.Remove("option");
      var html = "<select><option>one</option><option>two</option></select>";

      var doc = new HtmlDocument();
      doc.Load(new StringReader(html));

      var elements = doc.DocumentNode.Descendants().Where(n=>n.Name == "#text");

      Assert.AreEqual(2, elements.Count());
      Assert.AreEqual("select", elements.ElementAt(0).ParentNode.Name);
      Assert.AreEqual("select", elements.ElementAt(1).ParentNode.Name);
    }

you can try with this.

In the library it has like this. You need to remove it. by default the AgilityPack is set to treat option tags as empty.

ElementsFlags.Add("option", HtmlElementFlag.Empty);
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