".class" selector seems to be failing

A more detailed post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42322374/jsoup-basic-class-css-selectors-not-working-html-shows-elements-exist-an

The problem can be summarized like so:

Debugging code:

Elements as = doc.select("a");
for (Element e : as) {
    if (e.classNames().size() > 0)
        M.debug(e.classNames());
    if(e.classNames().contains("bigChar")) {
        M.debug("found!");
    }
}
as = doc.select(".bigChar");
M.debug("now: " + as);
for (Element e : as) {
    if (e.classNames().size() > 0)
        M.debug(e.classNames());
}

Output:

[logo]
[bigChar]
found!
[dotUnder]
[dotUnder]
[dotUnder]
[dotUnder]
[dotUnder]
now: 

I’ve spent a while debugging this and I think the problem may have to do with malformed HTML. Attached is a sample input, and below is some simple code to run it (I am able to reproduce this problem consistently by reading from the file):

    try {
        Document doc = Jsoup.parse(new File("blahblah.txt"), "UTF-8");
        System.out.println(doc.html());
        System.out.println("FINAL");
        System.out.println(doc.select(".bigChar"));
        System.exit(0);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

blahblah.txt

You can see in the HTML output that the “bigChar” class is used, but the .bigChar selector doesn’t seem to find it.

In my run of the above code, my output is

   </div> 
   <script type="text/javascript">
         $('#footer').css('top', $(document).height() - $('#containerRoot').height());
     </script>   
  </body>
 </html>
 FINAL
 

(i.e. nothing found for .bigChar)

[jhy]

Actually this is the same as #814 as @cketti pointed out 😃 I just forgot that try.jsoup wasn’t on 1.10.3.

[jhy]

Thanks for the report and the sleuthing.

The problem is that the attribute name is now all lower case, and something’s bugged in the case insensitivity of the attribute name.

You can see an e.g. here: http://try.jsoup.org/~l4ZA3QJ3p5WzWTD5y6v-tGu1Sh8 - change “Class” to “class” and it works. Will fix it up.