{"id":6742,"date":"2026-04-06T10:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=6742"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:17:13","slug":"finding-and-removing-html-elements-from-a-web-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2026\/04\/06\/finding-and-removing-html-elements-from-a-web-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding and Removing HTML Elements from a Web Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My script that looks for translation errors on our website is generating too many false positives. I need to ignore an area at the bottom of all pages, called the country selector which is a list of country names that are not translated. I first try to remove the country name strings after I have extracted the text from the web page, then I realize it would be better to find and remove specific HTML elements before extracting the text.<\/p>\n<p>Features covered in this <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/10\/29\/matlab-code-along-videos\/\">code-along<\/a> style video include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Text Analytics Toolbox: <tt>getAttribute<\/tt>, <tt>extractHTML<\/tt><\/li>\n<li><tt>arrayfun<\/tt><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"6392603387112\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Play the video in full screen mode for a better viewing experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2026\/04\/06\/finding-and-removing-html-elements-from-a-web-page\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/0ff6fe0a-8f1a-44d6-bcdf-746892d24ff2\/d008bbea-1b61-4b29-9cc4-801c5b4c316d\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">25:53<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <\/a><\/div>\n<p>My script that looks for translation errors on our website is generating too many false positives. I need to ignore an area at the bottom of all pages, called the country selector which is a list of&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2026\/04\/06\/finding-and-removing-html-elements-from-a-web-page\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6742"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6749,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions\/6749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}