<dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.ops4j.pax.carrot</groupId> <artifactId>pax-carrot-html</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> </dependency> </dependencies> CarrotHtmlParser parser = new CarrotHtmlParser(); Document doc = parser.parse(htmlString); List<Element> elements = doc.select("div.container > p"); List<Element> elements = doc.selectXPath("//div[@class='container']/p"); for(Element element : elements) { System.out.println(element.text()); }