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// Copyright 2010 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
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// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
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// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
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The html package implements an HTML5-compliant tokenizer and parser.
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Tokenization is done by creating a Tokenizer for an io.Reader r. It is the
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caller's responsibility to ensure that r provides UTF-8 encoded HTML.
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z := html.NewTokenizer(r)
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Given a Tokenizer z, the HTML is tokenized by repeatedly calling z.Next(),
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which parses the next token and returns its type, or an error:
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if tt == html.ErrorToken {
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// Process the current token.
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There are two APIs for retrieving the current token. The high-level API is to
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call Token; the low-level API is to call Text or TagName / TagAttr. Both APIs
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allow optionally calling Raw after Next but before Token, Text, TagName, or
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TagAttr. In EBNF notation, the valid call sequence per token is:
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Next {Raw} [ Token | Text | TagName {TagAttr} ]
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Token returns an independent data structure that completely describes a token.
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Entities (such as "<") are unescaped, tag names and attribute keys are
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lower-cased, and attributes are collected into a []Attribute. For example:
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if z.Next() == html.ErrorToken {
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// Returning os.EOF indicates success.
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The low-level API performs fewer allocations and copies, but the contents of
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the []byte values returned by Text, TagName and TagAttr may change on the next
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call to Next. For example, to extract an HTML page's anchor text:
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// emitBytes should copy the []byte it receives,
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// if it doesn't process it immediately.
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case StartTagToken, EndTagToken:
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if len(tn) == 1 && tn[0] == 'a' {
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A Tokenizer typically skips over HTML comments. To return comment tokens, set
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Tokenizer.ReturnComments to true before looping over calls to Next.
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Parsing is done by calling Parse with an io.Reader, which returns the root of
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the parse tree (the document element) as a *Node. It is the caller's
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responsibility to ensure that the Reader provides UTF-8 encoded HTML. For
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example, to process each anchor node in depth-first order:
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doc, err := html.Parse(r)
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var f func(*html.Node)
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f = func(n *html.Node) {
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if n.Type == html.ElementNode && n.Data == "a" {
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// Do something with n...
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for _, c := range n.Child {
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The relevant specifications include:
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http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html and
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http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tokenization.html
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// The tokenization algorithm implemented by this package is not a line-by-line
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// transliteration of the relatively verbose state-machine in the WHATWG
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// specification. A more direct approach is used instead, where the program
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// counter implies the state, such as whether it is tokenizing a tag or a text
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// node. Specification compliance is verified by checking expected and actual
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// outputs over a test suite rather than aiming for algorithmic fidelity.
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// TODO(nigeltao): Does a DOM API belong in this package or a separate one?
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// TODO(nigeltao): How does parsing interact with a JavaScript engine?