PHP simplehtmldom read only viewable text

Question

I have the following html format

 <p>This is viewable <span style="display:none">This is not viewable</span></p>

I want to use php simplehtmldom to extract only the "This is viewable" part.

Is there anyway to do it directly?

Answer 1

Sure you can, just remove that text:

$str = '<p>This is viewable <span style="display:none">This is not viewable</span></p>';

$html = str_get_html($str);

foreach($html->find('[style*=display:none]') as $el){
  $el->innertext = '';
}

echo $html->find('p', 0)->text();
// This is viewable