This is the issue: I want to have nested divs with paragraphs inside with different texts.
I want to be able to get the paragraph that contains certain word, for example "mate" I did the below HTML structure trying to obtain an HTML collection and iterate it, and then using javascript, try to use the includes method to get the paragraph than contains that word, and finally, try to find a way to get the full path from the uppermost div to this p.
<div class="grandpa">
<div class="parent1">
<div class="son1">
<p>I like oranges</p>
</div>
<div class="son2">
<p>yeeeey</p>
<p>wohoo it's saturday</p>
</div>
<div class="son3"></div>
</div>
<div class="parent2"></div>
<div class="parent3">
<div class="son1">
<p>your team mate has been killed!</p>
<p>I should stop playing COD</p>
</div>
<div class="son2"></div>
</div>
</div>
I actually don't know how to achieve it, but at least I wanted to get an HTML collection to iterate, but I'm not being able to get it.... When I use this:
const nodes = document.querySelector('.grandpa');
console.log(typeof nodes);
I don't get an HTML collection, instead if I console.log typeof nodes variable it says it is an object..
How can I iterate this DOM tree, capture the element that contais the word "mate", and obtain (this is what I really want to achieve) the path to it?
Thanks!
You can loop through every element, remove all children elements, then check whether the textContent includes the string you are looking for:
const allElements = document.body.querySelectorAll('*');
const lookFor = "mate";
var elem;
for (let i = 0; i < allElements.length; i++) {
const cur = allElements[i].cloneNode(true); //doesn't mess up the original element when removing children
while (cur.lastElementChild) {
cur.removeChild(cur.lastElementChild);
}
if (cur.textContent.includes(lookFor)) {
elem = cur;
break;
}
}
console.log(elem);<div class="grandpa">
<div class="parent1">
<div class="son1">
<p>I like oranges</p>
</div>
<div class="son2">
<p>yeeeey</p>
<p>wohoo it's saturday</p>
</div>
<div class="son3"></div>
</div>
<div class="parent2"></div>
<div class="parent3">
<div class="son1">
<p>your team mate has been killed!</p>
<p>I should stop playing COD</p>
</div>
<div class="son2"></div>
</div>
</div>