Excel VBA: get content from online HTML table

Question

can anybody pleas show me part of VBA code, which will get text \"hello\" from this example online HTML table? first node will be found by his ID (id=\"something\").

Answer 1

If you did search for an answer, you might want to broaden your scope next time. There are plenty of questions and answers that deal with DOM stuff and VBA.

Use getElementById on HTMLElement instead of HTMLDocument

While the question (and answers) aren't exactly what you want, it will show you how to create something you can work with.

You'll need to use a mixture of getElementById() and getElemenetsByTagName() to retrieve your desired "hello"

eg: Document.getElementById("something").getElementsByTagName("tr")(1).getElementsByTagName("td")(2).innerText

• Get the element "something"
• Inside "something" get all "tr" tags (specifically the one at index 1)
• Inside the returned tr tag get all "td" tags (specifically the one at index 2)
• Get the innerText of the previous result

These objects use a 0 based array so the first item is item(0).

Update

document.getElementById() will return an (singular) IHTMLElement (which will include all of its children) or nothing/null if it does not exist.

document.getElementsByTagName() will return a collection of IHTMLElement (again, each element will include all of its children). (or an empty collection if none exist)

document.getElementsByTagName("tr") this will return all tr elements inside the "document" element.

document.getElementsByTagName("tr")(0) will return the first (singular) IHTMLElement from the collection. (note the index at the end?)

There is no (that i could find) "sibling" feature of the InternetExplorer object in VBA, so you'd have to do it manually using the child index.

Using the DOM Functions is the clean way to do it. Its much clearer than just looking at a chain "Element.Children(0).children(1).children(2)" as you've no idea what the index means without manually looking it up.