BE THE CODER > Tools and Libs > Jsoup Examples

Jsoup is an open source java library for parsing and manipulating HTML with ease. Get the latest binaries from http://jsoup.org/. This requires the library jsoup-1.6.1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows inserting a tag element before another element.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/jsoup/tests/BeforeElementTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.jsoup.tests;



import org.jsoup.Jsoup;

import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;



public class BeforeElementTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) {



    String html = "<html><body><b>BE THE CODER</b></body></html>";

      

    Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html);

    System.out.println(doc.body().children().first()); //<b>BE THE CODER</b>

    

    doc.body().children().first().before("<span class='show'></span>");

    System.out.println(doc.html());

  }



}

Insert before Element