Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: is it possible to parse html pages using javascript?? Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:56:26 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4FFB1B4A.3090300@arnowelzel.de> References: <88af4dff-5cd2-4119-b5ab-2163ee57e864@vs10g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> <4FEB25F9.3050807@arnowelzel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2qo67Tws7gVegqj/bgsB4Q"; logging-data="29687"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19K2V/EdWanVYQ3MmYxcLHlt8HEx28ouOc=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:mSv0oDLGSDP4BMC2yH+WddBkHc4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:14971 Evertjan., 27.06.2012 23:05: > Arno Welzel wrote on 27 jun 2012 in comp.lang.javascript: > >> Gaurav vinayak, 20.06.2012 10:55: >> >>> is it possible to parse html pages using javascript?? >> >> What do you mean with "parse"? Do you know the DOM? > > You could parse a html-file as a textfile > using either serverside or clientside javascript. Usually nobody uses JavaScript to "parse" HTML - you use the DOM, which means, the HTML is already parsed and accessible using methods like getElementById() etc.. -- Arno Welzel http://arnowelzel.de http://de-rec-fahrrad.de