What is the root method in Mojo::DOM?

Overview

The root method is used to get the Mojo::DOM object of the root element. This method is provided by the Mojo::DOM module, which is an HTML/XML DOM parser with CSS selectors.

This method is useful when we want to get the root element and perform operations on its Mojo::DOM object.

Syntax

$dom->root

Return values

This method will return the Mojo::DOM object of the root node.

Let’s look at an example.

Example

Consider the given HTML:

<div>
   Inside div 
   <p id="a">Inside first paragraph </p>
   <p id="b">Inside second paragraph</p>
</div>

If we try to get Mojo::DOM object of root node using the root method, we will get the following output:

<div>Inside div <p id="a">Inside first paragraph </p><p id="b">Inside second paragraph</p></div>

Code example

Code explanation

In the above code snippet, we see the following:

• Line 2: We import the Mojo::DOM module.
• Line 5: We parse the HTML and store it in scalar ＄dom.
• Line 8: We print the Mojo::DOM object of the root element for the given HTML.