Get a value of an attribute by XPath and HtmlAgilityPack

c# xpath html-agility-pack
Chani Poz picture Chani Poz · Dec 29, 2011 · Viewed 42.8k times · Source

I have a HTML document and I parse it with XPath. I want to get a value of the element input, but it didn't work.

My Html: 

<tbody>
  <tr>
    <td>
      <input type="text" name="item" value="10743" readonly="readonly" size="10"/>
    </td>
  </tr>
</tbody>

My code:

using HtmlAgilityPack;

HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument doc; 
HtmlWeb hw = new HtmlWeb();
HtmlNodeCollection node = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//input/@value");
string s=node[0].InnerText;

So I want to get the value: "10743" (and I don't mind to get another tags with the answer.)

Answer

Kakashi picture Kakashi · Dec 29, 2011

you can get it in .Attributes collection:

var doc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
doc.Load("file.html");
var node = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//input") [0];
var val = node.Attributes["value"].Value; //10743

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