Get the data of Anchor tag.

Hello there,

I have added WebBrowser component on my form. It loads my own website on webbrowser.navigate(). Then I login in and navigate to my private page.

Now, I want to grab some data between anchor tag. There are multiple anchor tags in that page. Like,

HTML Code:

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<a href="something" class-index="something" id="something"> My Data </a>
<a href="something" class-index="something" id="something"> My Data 2</a>
<a href="something" class-index="something" id="something"> My Data 3</a>

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I want to loop through get these values "My Data","My Data 2","My Data 3" ... and so on..

How can I do this ?

Thanks!

Use the InnerText property to obtain content values from anchor tags.

VB.NET Code:

Dim myData As New List(Of String)
Dim anchorCollection As HtmlElementCollection
anchorCollection = WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("a")
If (Not anchorCollection Is Nothing And anchorCollection.Count > 0) Then
    For Each element As HtmlElement In anchorCollection
        myData.Add(element.InnerText)
    Next
End If

Quote:

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Originally Posted by KGComputers

Use the InnerText property to obtain content values from anchor tags.

VB.NET Code:

Dim myData As New List(Of String)
Dim anchorCollection As HtmlElementCollection
anchorCollection = WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("a")
If (Not anchorCollection Is Nothing And anchorCollection.Count > 0) Then
    For Each element As HtmlElement In anchorCollection
        myData.Add(element.InnerText)
    Next
End If

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Thanks for your reply! The problem with this is that it is fetching all data with Anchor tag. I have specified some attributes to the Anchor tage like,

<a href="something" data-hovercard="something" data-gt="">My data</a>

Is it possible to detect data-hovercard or data-gt and only return those data having this tag ?

Anyway again thanks :)

Yes, just add condition to get the attribute value of a specific tag.

VB.NET Code:

For Each element As HtmlElement In anchorCollection
      If element.GetAttribute("data-hovercard").Equals("something") Then
                    myData.Add(element.InnerText)
      End If
Next

Actually, I cannot pretend the value of "data-hovercard" because it's dynamic. Just want to check if it is there. And if it exists then show the inner value.

Just revise the If condition to check whether data-hovercard has a value or empty. If it has value, then add it to myData list object.