Parsing HTML into formatted plaintext using jsoup

Question

I was working on a maven project that allows me to parse a html data from a website. I was able to parse it using this code below:

public void parseData(){
          


        

Answer 1

The reason that it is not formatted is that the formatting is in the HTML -- with <p> and <ol> tags etc. Calling .text() on a block element loses that formatting.

Jsoup has an example HTML to Plain Text convertor which you can adapt to your needs -- by providing the div element as the focus.

Alternatively, you could just select "div.col-section > *", and iterate through each Element, and print out that text with a newline.