Different results selecting HTML elements with XPath in Firefox and Internet Explorer

Question

I\'m trying to select a specific HTML element in a document, for firefox i just use:

xpathobj = document.evaluate(xpath, document, null,
               XPath         


        

Answer 1

Instead of doing

xmlDoc.load(document); 

try

xmlDoc.loadXML(document.body.outerHTML)

This would only really work if your your HTML document is formatted to XHTML standards. Also, the BODY tag would be the root node, so you would have to change your XPATH to "/BODY/DIV[9]/DIV[2]"