Find previous element using Selenium Python

Question

I have HTML:

<div class="value">
    <div style="float: right;">100.00</div>
    <span class="yellow">Frequency:</span>
</div>

With selenium By.XPATH '//*[text()="Frequency:"]' I'm able to locate the <span> element. My goal is to get the innerText of the previous <div>.

Can I do it with selenium or should I use bs4 for this task?

I tried selenium.parent with documentation, but unable to do.

PS: I can't find the parent element or the div I need directly.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 09 '22 at 23:18

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To print the text from the <div> tag i.e. 100.00 wrt the <span> you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using xpath and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Frequency:']//preceding::div[1]").get_attribute("innerHTML"))

Using xpath and text attribute:

print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Frequency:']//preceding::div[1]").text)

answered Jul 09 '22 at 23:18

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That`s mega. I bookmarked locator strategies, big thanks. ::1 it is ::before in css, am i right? – T1mQa Jul 09 '22 at 23:21
Nopes, using [_css_selector_](https://stackoverflow.com/a/48578370/7429447) you can't traverse upwards. – undetected Selenium Jul 09 '22 at 23:23

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