PHP simple HTML DOM parser with spaces

Question

I am using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser. I am capturing the text between certain div tags using

$html->find(div.divname)

This works fine until the divname has a space in it.

I have tried [div name] and "div name", but, neither work. How would you work with the spaces?

Using the dot you mean a class? A class cannot have a spaces. — Ron van der Heijden, Nov 15 '16 at 13:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

I think that with $html->find(div.divname) you mean $html->find('div.divname') ...

The the divname part reflects the div's class name, not its name.

DOM element names actually may not contain spaces. Neither may their class names, as a space has a very different meaning there.

Technically you can do something like $html->find('div[name=foo bar]') for the name. Or $html->find('div[class=foo bar]') for the class name. But this will treat your attribute as literal, and will not cascade class names. So this is very bad practice and you shouldn't do it.

PHP simple HTML DOM parser with spaces

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