PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser

Question

I just started to use PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser.

Now I\'m trying to extract all elements surrounded with a -tag inclduing

Answer 1

More simple is from manual:

foreach($html->find('b') as $q)
    echo $q->plaintext;

Answer 2

Try the following CSS selector

b > span.marked

That would return the span though, so you probably have to do $e->parent() to get to the b element.

Also see Best Methods to parse HTML for alternatives to SimpleHtmlDom

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Edit after update:

Your browser will modify the DOM. If you look at your markup, you will see that there is no tbody elements. Yet Firebug gives you

html body div#wrapper table.desc tbody tr td div span.marked'
html body div#wrapper table.desc tbody tr td table.split tbody tr td b'

Also, your question does not match the queries. You asked how to find

elements surrounded with the <b>,</b>-tags followed by a <span class="marked">

That can be read to either mean

<b><span class="marked">foo</span></b>

or

<b><element>foo</element></b><span class="marked">foo</span>

For that first use the child combinator I have shown earlier. For the second, use the adjacent sibling combinator

b + span.marked

to get the span and then use $e->prev_sibling() to return the previous sibling of element (or null if not found).

However, in your shown markup, there is neither nor. There is only a DIV with a SPAN child having the marked class

<div style="text-align: center"> <span class="marked">marked</span>

If that is what you want to match, it's the child combinator again. Of course, you have to change the b then to a div.