Rainer wrote:
> What I need [...] is a method that
> tells me the first HTML tag of a fragment, whatever it is.

You may want to use Element#name:

$ irb -r hpricot
>> d = Hpricot('<div id="my_first_div">first div<p>a paragraph</p><span>a span</span></div>')
=> #<Hpricot::Doc {elem <div id="my_first_div"> "first div" {elem <p> "a 
paragraph</\np>" {elem <span> "a span" </span>}} </div>}>
>> d.search('*').first.name
=> "div"

Regards, ¥ÆËÎer [yet another Ruby beginner].



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