html agility pack remove children

Question

I\'m having difficulty trying to remove a div with a particular ID, and its children using the HTML Agility pack. I am sure I\'m just missing a config option, but its Friday a

Answer 1

bodyNode.RemoveChild(functionBarNode,false);

But functionBarNode is not a child of bodyNode.

How about functionBarNode.ParentNode.RemoveChild(functionBarNode, false)? (And forget the bit about finding bodyNode.)

Answer 2

You can simply call:

var documentNode = document.DocumentNode;
var functionBarNode = documentNode.SelectSingleNode("//div[@id='functionBar']");
functionBarNode.Remove();

It is much simpler, and does the same as:

functionBarNode.ParentNode.RemoveChild(functionBarNode, false);

Answer 3

This will work for multiple:

HtmlDocument d = this.Download(string.Format(validatorUrl, Url));
foreach (var toGo in QuerySelectorAll(d.DocumentNode, "p[class=helpwanted]").ToList())
{
   toGo.Remove();
}