How to find Elements by Tag Name using Selenium?
Find Elements by Tag Name
To find all HTML Elements that has a given tag name in a document, using Selenium in Python, call find_elements() method, pass By.TAG_NAME as the first argument, and the tag name (of the HTML Elements we need to find) as the second argument.
find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "tag_name_value")find_elements() method returns all the HTML Elements, that match the given tag name, as a list.
If there are no elements by given tag name, find_elements() function returns an empty list.
Example
Consider the HTML document at the URL /tmp/selenium/index-56.html, with the following HTML content.
HTML Webpage
<html>
<body>
<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<div name="xyz">
<p>Article 1</p>
<a href="/tmp/article-1/">Read More</a>
</div>
<div name="xyz">
<p>Article 2</p>
<a href="/tmp/article-2/">Read More</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>In the following program, we will find all the HTML elements whose tag name is 'p', using find_elements() method, 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-56.html')
# Find elements whose Tag Name = "p", i.e., paragraphs
my_elements = driver.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, 'p')
for element in my_elements:
print(element.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
# Close the driver
driver.quit()Output
<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<p>Article 1</p>
<p>Article 2</p>Summary
In this Python Selenium tutorial, we learned how to find all the elements by given tag name, present in the webpage, using Selenium.