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Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2018 9:14 pm**

Hello,

Hoping someone can help here. I can retrieve webpage data by using this format:

put url ("https://www. genericpage .com/generic_search.php?valid=y&active=y&Search=Search") into tReturnedData

But tReturnedData has what appears to be the page source html code.

What I would like to ask is how do I get the text data that would be displayed on the webpage.. not the page source, but the data displayed in the browser, I guess more like http GET /generic_search.php?valid=y&active=y&Search=Search.

-fj

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2018 9:27 pm**

Hi Fred,

welcome to the forum!

There is a trick to extract the pure text from a HMTL page:

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## Load HTML source into a field:
put url("https://www.genericpage.com/generic_search.php?valid=y&active=y&Search=Search") into fld 1

## Then (try) to see what the HTML source will display:
set the htmltext of fld 1 to the text of fld 1
...

LC only supports a little part of HTML code however, CSS is NOT supported unfortunately,
so this may not fit your needs, but give it a try.

Best

Klaus

Posted: **Wed Sep 12, 2018 9:49 pm**

Klaus,

That will work! Very helpful, thanks a bunch for that bit of info. Very useful indeed.

-fj

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