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Is someone to help me retrieve with jsoup the value of the text-align style in this example ?

<th style="text-align:right">4389</th>

Here i want to get the value right

Thank you!

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Show us what you have implemented till now. Where are you stuck. –  Talha Ahmed Khan Jun 14 '13 at 12:22
    
i was trying to know if my expression is working with that Elements elt = doc.select("[style*='text-align']"); System.out.println(elt.size()); –  pacheikh Jun 14 '13 at 12:26
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You can retrieve the style attribute of the element and then split it by :.

Example:

final String html = "<th style=\"text-align:right\">4389</th>";

Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html, "", Parser.xmlParser()); // Using the default html parser may remove the style attribute
Element th = doc.select("th[style]").first();


String style = th.attr("style"); // You can put those two lines into one
String styleValue = style.split(":")[1]; // TODO: Insert a check if a value is set

// Output the results
System.out.println(th);
System.out.println(style);
System.out.println(styleValue);

Output:

<th style="text-align:right">4389</th>
text-align:right
right
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this is the solution i had finally imagined but in a different way. Thank you @wartai for your help. –  pacheikh Jun 15 '13 at 14:13
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