Reading HTML OL as a variant array

I have this Ordered List (OL) element read and set to an object variable in a VBA function I'm working on

I'm trying to work out some way I can read all rows/columns to a 2D array. Is this doable?

Also; Would it be possible to make this generic enough so it could be reusable for any OL element or is that wishful thinking? (I never learnt HTML so don't laugh :S )

Hello mc84excel,

It would help if you posted the HTML code you want to parse.

Thanks Leith Ross but the most pressing need I have for this contains too much confidential data to easily remove. Also I am after a function that is reusable for any OL element

Sorry Kyle, my mistake. I have stuffed up again.

Firstly thank you for the code provided +1 for that

My problem is that I forgot to specify in the opening post that I was looking to return a 2D array!

Dont worry about it. I am tinkering away on this and in a day or so I will know if there is any chance of success (or not)

Why a 2D array?

What would be in the second dimension?

Originally Posted by Norie

Why a 2D array?

What would be in the second dimension?

Columns.

For example The OL I am most interested in is an online contacts directory. Each page is an OL element. Each contact is a new LI element in that OL. And there are phone/email etc details inside each of these LI elements.

I solved it.

Each item I wanted to pick up is a span element of the li element. So I set an object to hold all the span elements of the li element and then loop through those, recording the innertext value (if exists) & recording the span classname as the field/header name.

Some of the span elements are nested. So I added an optional argument 'blnOnlyReturnBaseData' to only record the field & value if the span element length was 0.

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