Parsing data from HTML using Jsoup causing trouble with "span" element

Question

I'm trying to parse text inside SPAN and it's causing me some trouble.

HTML code for what I'm trying to parse:

<span title="Geografija">GEO</span>

My selector syntax:

Elements eles = doc.select("table.ednevnik-seznam_ur_teden tbody tr:eq(2) span");

This is what I get:

<span title="Geografija">GEO</span>

It literally parses the HTML code, but I'm trying to only parse the text inside span element. In this case, I should get this:

GEO

What am I doing wrong here?

T.J. Crowder · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-29 13:57:15Z

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If you want the text of the element, get the element from your list (perhaps using Elements#first or Elements#get), then use Element#text to get the element's text.

answered Dec 29, 2013 at 13:57

T.J. Crowder

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