How to get a list of the
elements in an
with Selenium using Python?

Question

I'm using Selenium WebDriver using Python for UI tests and I want to check the following HTML:

<ul id="myId">
    <li>Something here</li>
    <li>And here</li>
    <li>Even more here</li>
</ul>

From this unordered list I want to loop over the elements and check the text in them. I selected the ul-element by its id, but I can't find any way to loop over the <li>-children in Selenium.

Does anybody know how you can loop over the <li>-childeren of an unordered list with Selenium (in Python)?

Please provide the `html` or at least a sample – Saifur Feb 09 '15 at 16:57 — Saifur, Feb 09 '15 at 16:57
The HTML was buried due to missing indents. – Mark Rowlands Feb 09 '15 at 17:14 — Mark Rowlands, Feb 09 '15 at 17:14

Mark Rowlands · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-10T09:54:13.290

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You need to use the .find_elements_by_ method.

For example,

html_list = self.driver.find_element_by_id("myId")
items = html_list.find_elements_by_tag_name("li")
for item in items:
    text = item.text
    print text

edited Feb 10 '15 at 09:54

answered Feb 09 '15 at 17:13

Mark Rowlands

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By having a variable named `list` you are shadowing a built-in `list` which may cause very weird problems on the way. – alecxe Feb 09 '15 at 18:42
Mark, thanks! That seems to work perfectly well. Just one last question; there is actually a link within the tag: `
some link

kramer65

Feb 09 '15 at 20:56

@alecxe I complete agree, but no-one should just copy-paste. :) But I've edited the variable just in case. – Mark Rowlands Feb 10 '15 at 09:52

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 14 '20 at 19:26

Strangely enough, I had to use this get_attribute()-workaround in order to see the content:

html_list = driver.find_element_by_id("myId")
items = html_list.find_elements_by_tag_name("li")
for item in items:
    print(item.get_attribute("innerHTML"))

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 23 '21 at 17:25

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You can use list comprehension:

# Get text from all elements
text_contents = [el.text for el in driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//ul[@id='myId']/li")]
# Print text
for text in text_contents:
    print(text)

edited Apr 23 '21 at 17:25

Ashraf Sada

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