Get '.name a' with html agility pack?

Question

I am trying to get all links of a link when its parent class is name_of_box. I wrote the below but got nothing. How do i do this? With css i believe i can select it with .name_of_box a

var ls = htmldoc.DocumentNode.Elements("//div[@class='name_of_box']//a[@href]");

Answer 1

HtmlAgilityPack doesn't have the ability to directly query an attribute value. You have to loop over the list of anchor nodes. Here's one way:

var ls = new List<string>(); 
var nodes = htmldoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div[@class='name_of_box']//a");
nodes.ToList().ForEach(a => ls.Add(a.GetAttributeValue("href", "")));

But there is an experimental build you can look at, that will let you directly query an attribute.

Answer 2

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