>Jos,
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>I know of no DOM method other than Dragans innertext to extract just the visible text on screen. You might check if automatic cut/paste into a pure text editor still has all the relevant info - text, list, and a_link nodes should be there, not certain about more controlly thingies like button or, dropdown, adio and so on.
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>I'd either walk the .body of the DOM myself, but look first into Screen Scraping libraries - Python has Beautiful Soup and others, Javascript has at least one and Selenium might have functionality for that as well, as it is a test tool and logging "visible text" as option might be useful. Vfp fell out of favor to soon, no tools there...
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>HTH
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>thomas

Hi Thomas,

Hope you well. Thanks for the added info!