Recent changes to bugs

#193 Patch for PHP 8

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:02:52 -0000

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#199 Incorrect handling of
tags next to line breaks

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:02:49 -0000

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#201 Never return false on documents

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:02:45 -0000

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#203 Always tell user where he expected non-existing element

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:02:42 -0000

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#204 Convenience function for getting first element

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:02:39 -0000

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#210 Find first child element like CSS does not respect order

Hi Man O ManaO — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 21:30:48 -0000

Sorry, wrong goal. Close this.
The correct answer it's here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/simplehtmldom/support-requests/63/

Find first child element like CSS does not respect order

Hi Man — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 10:10:24 -0000

Find first child element like CSS does not respect order
I'm talking about '>' selector.
You can see from the following code like CSS rules are not respected.

...
$section = $html->find('div.main',0);
$div = $main->find('div')[0];

//then removing something like (just for explain)
//foreach ($div->find('sup') as $sup) { $sup->outertext = ''; }

/* OVER A RESULT LIKE THIS
<div>
    <section>
        <section>A</section>
    </section>
    <section>B</section>
</div>
*/

//here the problem
striptags ( $div->find('> section')[0] ) //this gives back A
striptags ( $div->find('> section')[1] ) //this gives back A TOO!!

I love PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser, but this is a big bug.
Please kill the bug 😎🐞🦋🐝🐜 🔫🔫🔫

Decoding HTML entities corrupts text in HTML

Maxim Volobuev — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:58:00 -0000

Processing texts with the html_entity_decode added in feature #52 corrupts the text in many cases. This is an example:

$html = '<p>Use &lt; or &gt; symbols</p>';
var_dump($html);
$htmlDocument = new HtmlDocument();
$htmlDom = $htmlDocument->load($html);
$html = $htmlDom->save();
var_dump($html);
$htmlDom = $htmlDocument->load($html);
$html = $htmlDom->save();
var_dump($html);

Output:

string(31) "<p>Use &lt; or &gt; symbols</p>"
string(25) "<p>Use < or > symbols</p>"
string(23) "<p>Use <or> symbols</p>"

In fact, if the text contains any properly encoded HTML code to display on the page, it will be replaced by the tags after saving and cannot be displayed on the page anymore. It makes the Simple HTML DOM library absolutely unsafe for use. Decoding HTML entities should be removed or at least disabled by default.

#208 $node->find() finds element next to $node

Igor Zhuravlov — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 05:09:45 -0000

This bug persists even with well-formed HTML with single root element:

<?php

$s_htm = <<<EOT
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<body>
  <div class="c1"></div>
  <div class="c2"></div>
</body>
</html>
EOT;
...

$node->find() finds element next to $node

Igor Zhuravlov — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 01:35:03 -0000

<?php

$s_htm = '<div class="c1"></div><div class="c2"></div>';

include_once('HtmlDocument.php');
use simplehtmldom\HtmlDocument;
$o_doc = new HtmlDocument();
$o_doc->load($s_htm);
$o_elm1 = $o_doc->find('.c1',0);
echo("an element of class='".($o_elm1->getAttribute('class'))."' was found => ok\n");
$o_elm2 = $o_elm1->find('*',0);
if(NULL === $o_elm2) {
  echo("no sub-elements found within div.c1 => ok\n");
} elseif(is_object($o_elm2)) {
  echo("a sub-element of class='".($o_elm2->getAttribute('class'))."' was found within div.c1 => bug\n");
}

outputs:

an element of class='c1' was found => ok
a sub-element of class='c2' was found within div.c1 => bug

Expected output:

element of class='c1' was found => ok
no sub-elements found within div.c1 => ok

Recent changes to bugs

#193 Patch for PHP 8

#199 Incorrect handling of tags next to line breaks

#201 Never return false on documents

#203 Always tell user where he expected non-existing element

#204 Convenience function for getting first element

#210 Find first child element like CSS does not respect order

Find first child element like CSS does not respect order

Decoding HTML entities corrupts text in HTML

#208 $node->find() finds element next to $node

$node->find() finds element next to $node

#199 Incorrect handling of
tags next to line breaks