How to ignore <div> inside <td>

[jonathanyee]

I'm using the scrapTable function and its working fine, however, the site I'm scraping has an extra div inside a cell. How can I ignore this div <div class="nonTablet nonDesktop"><b>12/27/2015</b></div>?

<table class="ledger accountDetail">
    <thead class="nonMobile">
        <tr>
            <th style="width: 14%;">Date</th>
            <th style="width: 44%;">Description</th>
            <th style="width: 17%;" class="right">Debits&nbsp;$ / Credits&nbsp;$</th>
            <th style="width: 25%;" class="right">Current Balance&nbsp;$</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr class="bkgd2">
            <td class="ledgerAccountDetailDesc" style="white-space: nowrap;">12/27/2015</td>
            <td class="ledgerAccountDetailDesc">
                <div class="nonTablet nonDesktop"><b>12/27/2015</b></div>
                Interest Payment	
            </td>

[Yomguithereal]

I am not sure to understand what you mean @jonathanyee. If you just want to retrieve the contained text, why not use the .text method?

[jonathanyee]

So when I use the scrapTable function, it parses the date twice. Once from the <td> and once from the <div> inside the next <td>. So I'm wondering how I could ignore the <div> since I dont need the date twice.

[Yomguithereal]

I guess at that point you can either use scrapeTable and post-process the created list to drop the unnecessary fields or rather use scrape to do the job with less sugar but more control on the output.