Is there an easy way to exclude the current element from selectors?

[midgleyc]

As mentioned in the docs, selectors may match the current element or any of its children. Is there a simple (or recommended) way to only match children? At the moment I'm filtering out the current element if it was matched

node.getElementsByTag("table").stream().filter(x -> x != node).toList();

[jhy]

Hi,

There are a few ways to do this. The cleanest syntax might be to select on the element's children():

String html = "<div id=1>Outer <div id=2>One</div><div id=3>Two</div></div>";
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html);
Element el = doc.expectFirst("div");
Elements inner = el.children().select("div");

Or, modify the selector to only match the children directly:

Elements inner = doc.select("div div");

[midgleyc]

Thanks, I don't necessarily know what the higher node is (in the code, only that I don't want to select it), but children().select is perfect.

[jhy]

On review - a simpler and more efficient way is just to write the query as a descendant of the context element:

String html = "<div id=1>Outer <div id=2>One</div><div id=3>Two</div></div>";
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html);
Element el = doc.expectFirst("div");
Elements inner = el.select("* div");

In jsoup we support starting the CSS query with a combinator, which will be applied to the root (context) element. Using that vs children() will be somewhat more efficient as the query can execute in one pass. Plus it looks cleaner, IMHO.

Or use > div to find the direct descendents.