Finding multiple elements by tag name using the PHP XML DOM parser

Question

I can get all image elements in the DOM like this:

$element->getElementsByTagName('img')

How can I get all image and iframe elements in the DOM in one request? Something like:

$element->getElementsByTagName('img, iframe')

@algoriyhtsmts Thanks for the help. That's what I was looking for. — berea
– berea, Commented Jan 23, 2018 at 17:18

Anand G · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-23 06:08:48Z

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Using getElementsByTagName you cannot get multiple elements by tag name. You can get one tag at a time only. To achieve this, there are two ways

Calling Tag for two times

$element->getElementsByTagName('img')
$element->getElementsByTagName('iframe')

OR

Using JavaScript

document.querySelectorAll('img,ifame')

PS: I would not recommend using PHP for DOM parsing because that will impact page performance.

Hope this helps

answered Jan 23, 2018 at 6:08

Anand G

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