From: ga rg Date: 2008-08-06T23:26:44+09:00 Subject: Hpricot: match inner_text then return parent Hello, Here is sample HTML:

abcd	efgh	ijkl
mnop	qrst	uvwx

I have a requirement that I need to match for example the inner_text "qrst". If I find it, then I want to grab the immediate parent. So for example, I want qrst, if a a.inner_text == qrst then grab parent and the result I want is: mnop qrst uvwx My very wrong attempt: (doc/"html//body//form//table//tbody//tr//td").each do |row| result = row.search("a").select {|ele| if ele.inner_text.to_s == mac_addr puts "I'm in" parent = ele.nodes_at(-1) puts parent end } end I can't seem to grab just one selection let alone grab the parent :( Thank you -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.