How to retrieve the link's label with HTML Editor kit?

Question

Hi all,
I need to retrieve the label that is on a HREF html attribute.
In other words I need to retreive the words "Home Page" from
this snippet:
<b>Home Page</b>
I have found tutorials that show how to extract the link itself
but not the label ....:-(
can anybody help me?
Thanks
Francesco

Answer 1

Hi,
if you have a HTMLDocument you can look into the element structure of this document to find a certain A tag as follows   /**
   * find the next link attribute from a given element upwards
   * through the element hierarchy
   * @param elem  the element to start looking at
   * @return the link attribute found, or null, if none was found
  public static Element findLinkElementUp(Element elem) {
    Element e = null;
    Object linkAttr = null;
    Object href = null;
    while((elem != null) && (linkAttr == null)) {
      e = elem;
      linkAttr = elem.getAttributes().getAttribute(HTML.Tag.A);
      if(linkAttr != null) {
        href = ((AttributeSet) linkAttr).getAttribute(HTML.Attribute.HREF);
      elem = elem.getParentElement();
    if(linkAttr != null && href != null) {
      return e;
    else {
      return null;
  }When this method returns an element, its start and end can be used to extract the link text.
Ulrich