How to find Elements by CSS Selector using Selenium?
Find Elements by CSS Selector
To find HTML Elements that match the given CSS Selector using Selenium in Python, call find_elements() method, pass By.CSS_SELECTOR as the first argument, and the CSS selector string (of the HTML Elements we need to find) as the second argument.
find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, "css_selector_value")find_elements() method returns all the HTML Elements, that match the given CSS selector, as a list.
If there is no elements by given CSS selector, find_elements() function returns an empty list.
Example
Consider the HTML document at the URL /tmp/selenium/index-58.html, with the following HTML content.
HTML Webpage
<html>
<body>
<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<div class="flat-button">Button 1</div>
<div class="flat-button">Button 2</div>
<div class="card">Card 1</div>
<div class="card">Card 2</div>
</body>
</html>In the following program, we will find all the HTML elements whose tag name is div and class name is 'card' using CSS selector, and print those elements to the console.
Python Program (Selenium)
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
# Setup chrome driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
# Navigate to the url
driver.get('/tmp/selenium/index-58.html')
# Find elements by CSS Selector
my_elements = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'div.card')
for element in my_elements:
print(element.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
# Close the driver
driver.quit()Output
<div class="card">Card 1</div>
<div class="card">Card 2</div>Summary
In this Python Selenium tutorial, we learned how to find all the HTML elements that match the given CSS selector, in webpage, using Selenium.