Nokogiri: Navigating the DOM?

The approach I would take (if I am understanding your problem) is to use XPath or css to search for your start_here element and the parent element that you want to search under. Then, recursively walk the tree starting at parent, stopping when you hit the start_here element, and holding onto the last element that matches your style along the way.

Maybe this will do it. I'm not sure about the performance and if there might be some cases that I haven't thought of.

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