# html.parser --- Simple HTML and XHTML parser — .HTMLParser Methods

> HTMLParser instances have the following methods Feed some text to the parser.

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HTMLParser instances have the following methods

Feed some text to the parser. It is processed insofar as it consists of complete elements; incomplete data is buffered until more data is fed or close is called. data must be str.

Force processing of all buffered data as if it were followed by an end-of-file mark. This method may be redefined by a derived class to define additional processing at the end of the input, but the redefined version should always call the HTMLParser base class method close.

Reset the instance. Loses all unprocessed data. This is called implicitly at instantiation time.

Return current line number and offset.

Return the text of the most recently opened start tag. This should not normally be needed for structured processing, but may be useful in dealing with HTML "as deployed" or for re-generating input with minimal changes (whitespace between attributes can be preserved, etc.).

The following methods are called when data or markup elements are encountered and they are meant to be overridden in a subclass. The base class implementations do nothing (except for ~HTMLParser.handle_startendtag)

This method is called to handle the start tag of an element (e.g. ).

The tag argument is the name of the tag converted to lower case. The attrs argument is a list of (name, value) pairs containing the attributes found inside the tag's &lt;&gt; brackets. The name will be translated to lower case, and quotes in the value have been removed, and character and entity references have been replaced. For empty attributes, value is None.

For instance, for the tag &lt;A HREF=" this method would be called as handle_starttag('a', [('href', '

All entity references from html.entities are replaced in the attribute values.

This method is called to handle the end tag of an element (e.g. ).

The tag argument is the name of the tag converted to lower case.

Similar to handle_starttag, but called when the parser encounters an XHTML-style empty tag (). This method may be overridden by subclasses which require this particular lexical information; the default implementation simply calls handle_starttag and handle_endtag.

This method is called to process arbitrary data (e.g. text nodes and the content of elements like script and style). …

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