possible to locate higher hierarchical list of HTML code?

Hi,

I am working on vb code to perform web automation. I understand that getting a data from the web is achievable usually by using e.g. getelementsbytagname("table") and further narrow down to getelementsbytagname("tr") and then getelementsbytagname("td"). I am curious if I could do it reversely. I am running into a situation where I found a <a> tag and wish to using the location of the <a> tag to look for e.g. <tr> tag that includes the <a> tag. Is it possible to do that?

HEllo lubbamkt,

It Would be a big help if you posted the HTML code fragment. HTML is top-down design. You can start at the end and work your way backup.

The method getElementsByTagName will returna collection of the Tags by that name that are Child Nodes of the Document Body. To get deeper, you must use recursion.

What can make recursion more complex is if the element belongs to either a Frame or IFrame. These are treated as separate HTML Documenets that redirect to another page.

So, the more we know the better we can help you find a solution.

Originally Posted by Leith Ross

HEllo lubbamkt,

It Would be a big help if you posted the HTML code fragment. HTML is top-down design. You can start at the end and work your way backup.

The method getElementsByTagName will returna collection of the Tags by that name that are Child Nodes of the Document Body. To get deeper, you must use recursion.

What can make recursion more complex is if the element belongs to either a Frame or IFrame. These are treated as separate HTML Documenets that redirect to another page.

So, the more we know the better we can help you find a solution.

Hi Leith Ross,

Due to the lengthy HTML code, I cannot post it directly here. Sorry to brother you to download the attached word file which contains the HTML code fragment. Within the code, I used getelementbyid("a") and look for "@" to find out the email address in red (abc@gmail). Now what I would like to do is to base on the <a> tag that contained the email address to find the value in GREEN color (XYZ Restaurant).