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    copied!<p>I have this html amongst a lot of table rows in a table:</p> <pre><code>......... &lt;tr class="greycellodd" align="right"&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt; &lt;input type="checkbox" name="cashInvestment" value="100468057"/&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;Cardcash &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="nobr"&gt;26 Aug 10&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="nobr"&gt; 1.00 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="nobr"&gt; 1.00 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;£&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="nobr"&gt;0.00 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="nobr"&gt;0.00 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="nobr"&gt; &lt;span class="changeupsmall"&gt;1.00 &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr class="greycellodd"&gt; &lt;td align="right"/&gt; &lt;td class="nobr" colspan="8"&gt;VISA&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr class="greycelleven" align="right"&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt; &lt;input type="checkbox" name="cashInvestment" value="100480214"/&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;Santander &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="nobr"&gt;24 Sep 11&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="nobr"&gt; 1.00 ....... </code></pre> <p>I need to extract everything between each checkbox tag</p> <pre><code>&lt;input type="checkbox" name="cashInvestment" ../&gt; </code></pre> <p>Example</p> <p>Elemtent 1:</p> <pre><code>Cardcash 26 Aug 10 1.00 1.00 £ 0.00 0.00 1.00 VISA </code></pre> <p>Element 2:</p> <pre><code>Santander 24 Sep 11 1.00 ....... </code></pre> <p>I have tried:</p> <pre><code> Elements Inve = mainFirst.select("input ~ *" ); </code></pre> <p>and</p> <pre><code> Elements Inve = doc.select("input"); // gives me nothing as there is no text to the input tag (it has no child). </code></pre> <p>I also need to get the value of the checkbox, which I know how to do, but would be nice to do at the same time if possible:</p> <pre><code>Elements mainTables = doc.select("table.maintable"); for (Element subTable : mainTables){ Elements borrowInve = subTable.select("input[type=checkbox][name=cashInvestment]" ); String attr = test.attr("value"); } </code></pre> <p>Thanks</p> <p>Edit: resolved by checking the size :</p> <pre><code> Elements td = tableRows.get(i).select("td"); Elements cash = tableRows.get(i).getElementsByAttributeValue("name", attrValue); // check if checkbox is present int theSize = cash.size(); if(theSize ==1){ // this row is not a comment String checkbox = ""; Element cbox = td.select("input[type=checkbox]" ).first(); checkbox = cbox.attr("value"); else if (theSize ==0){ // this row contains a comment ............. </code></pre>
 

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