What are properties of find_element_by_class_name in selenium python?

Question

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get(url)
divs = browser.find_elements_by_class_name('class')

Are there any properties of browser.find_element_by_class_name('class')?

For example if I have code like that:

<div class="foo">
    <a href="" class="poo">one</a>
    <a href="" class="poo">two</a>
    <a href="" class="poo">three</a>
</div>
<div class="foo">
    <a href="" class="koo">one</a>
    <a href="" class="koo">two</a>
    <a href="" class="koo">three</a>
</div>

I want to get text from 'a' tags. But firstly I want to get divs. so I do something like that:

divs = browser.find_elements_by_class_name('foo')

And now I want to get all the 'a' tags from my divs Array. Is it possible?

undetected Selenium · Answer 1 · 2020-07-03T13:56:40.043

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`CLASS_NAME`

CLASS_NAME is one of the Selenium supported Locator Strategy as well as a property of the WebElement interface which gets and sets the value of the class attribute of the specified element.

To get the texts from <a> tags with in parent <div> tags you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CLASS_NAME:

print([my_elem.text for my_elem in WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.CLASS_NAME, "koo")))])

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

print([my_elem.text for my_elem in WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.foo a.koo")))])

Using XPATH:

print([my_elem.text for my_elem in WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='foo']//a[@class='koo']")))])

edited Jul 03 '20 at 13:56

answered Jul 03 '20 at 13:51

undetected Selenium

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Yes, I know. But can I somehow get the text of the anchor tags that are within my divs? I mean I wanted to do something like: divs.find_elements_by_tag_name('a'). But I can't do something like that, since I'm getting a huge error. – wloszynski Jul 03 '20 at 13:54
And what does that error say? Is it "AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'find_elements_by_tag_name'? – Matt L. Jul 03 '20 at 14:02
Never mind, everything is working. Thank you very much. – wloszynski Jul 03 '20 at 14:23

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 03 '20 at 14:24

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You can find elements in a element, extract them with nested loop:

divs = browser.find_elements_by_class_name('foo')

for div in divs:
    elements = div.find_elements_by_tag_name('a')
    for element in elements:
        print(element.text)

answered Jul 03 '20 at 14:24

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@frianH OP wanted to _want to get ``_ but your answer gives _class_ `foo` got lucky ehh? – undetected Selenium Jul 03 '20 at 20:11
Hi @DebanjanB I don't think we need to debate `divs`, it is just a variable name. – frianH Jul 07 '20 at 04:05
_"And now I want to get all the 'a' tags from my divs Array. Is it possible?"_ – undetected Selenium Jul 07 '20 at 06:48
yes @DebanjanB, I think the above answer has answered the main question, get all `a` tag from each `div` in `divs`. CMIIW – frianH Jul 07 '20 at 10:06

What are properties of find_element_by_class_name in selenium python?

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`CLASS_NAME`

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