[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to extract some information from an html file using > beautiful soup. The strings I want get are after br tags, eg: > > <font size='6'> > <br>this info > <br>more info > <br>and more info > </font> > > I can navigate to the first br tag using find_next_sibling, but how do > I get the string after the br's? > br.contents is empty.
I'm not familiar with Beautiful Soup specifically, but this isn't how the <br> tag works. Unlike a tag like <li> or <p>, which need not be closed in HTML, <br> does not contain anything, it's just a line break. If it were XHTML, it would be <br />, indicating that it's a standalone tag. Instead you want to traverse the contents of the font tag, taking into account line breaks that you encounter. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Fear is an emotion indispensible for survival. -- Hannah Arendt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
