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Jsoup.select not selecting CSS path but chrome selects it

i'm trying to select some paragraph in www.zoho.com using following css paths:

  1. html > body > div:nth-of-type(2) > div:nth-of-type(3) > section > div > div > div > div
  2. div.zh-banner-wrap > div.content-wrap.animated:first-child

it is working fine in Chrome inspect element css path search

But while i'm trying this in jsoup it is not working.

Java code :

        Document doc = Jsoup.connect("https://www.zoho.com").get();

        Element el = doc.selectFirst("html > body > div:nth-of-type(2) > div:nth-of-type(3) > section > div > div > div > div");
        if(el != null) {
            System.out.println(el.text());
        }
Solution

  • I am not sure what are expected output in your case. When I am using your selector in chrome console 

    document.querySelector("html > body > div:nth-of-type(2) > div:nth-of-type(3) > section > div > div > div")

    I got null. Same as in Jsoup.

    This is because 

    document.querySelector("html > body > div:nth-of-type(2)")

    is 

    <div class=​"ztopstrip-container">​</div>​

    If in your case output is different, check if there is a content loaded dynamically via JavaScript.

    Compare result of System.out.println(doc.html()) with source code from web browser.