I am trying to write a Ruby script that would read a local HTML file, and insert some more HTML (basically a string) into it after a certain #divid.
I am kinda noob so please don't hesitate to put in some code here.
Thanks
the Ruby code, someone suggested Nokogiri
M Wash
2010-10-15 06:23:25
+1
A:
I was able to this by following...
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('file.html'))
data = "<div>something</div>"
doc.children.css("#divid").first.add_next_sibling(data)
And then (over)write the file with same data...
File.open("file.html", 'w') {|f| f.write(doc.to_html) }
M Wash
2010-10-15 11:04:28
A:
This is a bit more correct way to do it:
html = '<html><body><div id="certaindivid">blah</div></body></html>'
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(html)
doc.at_css('div#certaindivid').add_next_sibling('<div>junk goes here</div>')
print doc.to_html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html><body>
<div id="certaindivid">blah</div>
<div>junk goes here</div>
</body></html>
Notice the use of .at_css(), which finds the first occurrence of the target node and returns it, avoiding getting a nodeset back, and relieving you of the need to grab the .first() node.
Greg
2010-10-19 23:57:53