PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser works without id or class reference?

Question

I want to use the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser to remove certain links from a page generated in Frontpage the problem I found is the following as Frontpage does not generate any html element with id or class i wonder if it is possible to indicate a way for this to be done

the page on which I want to remove the links is not mine, I’m just extracting data from it

Answer 1

Yes. You must use a property called XPath, indicating the path of an element in the DOM (Document Object model).

To catch the XPath of an element, simply access the Elements tab of Developer Tools (in the case of Google Chrome), inspect the element in question and then copy your Xpath:

In the case of the link above, for example, its Xpath is:

//*[@id="supertopo"]/div[1]/div[1]/ul/li[1]/a

I hope I’ve helped. :)