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remove a child element in a element content with simple_html_dom

This is a sample html code:

<div class="leadContent">
   <span> sentence 1 </span>

   sentence 2

</div>

I just want to get sentence 2 (Not span tag and its content)

Is there any way to do this with simple_html_dom?

$html->find('div.leadContent', 0)->innertext;
Solution

  • You can remove span tag using outertext:

    $html->find('div.leadContent span', 0)->outertext = '';

    then you get the content

    $html->find('div.leadContent', 0)->innertext;

    edit:

    You can also try this way:

    $div = $html->find('div.leadContent', 0);
$div->find('span',0)->outertext = '';

    $div will have your content.