get_attribute() element method – Selenium Python
get_attribute() element method – Selenium Python
Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provides a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver.
Just being able to go to places isn’t terribly useful. What we’d really like to do is to interact with the pages, or, more specifically, the HTML elements within a page.
This article revolves around how to use get_attribute
method in Selenium. get_attribute
method is used to get attributes of an element, such as getting href
attribute of anchor tag. This method will first try to return the value of a property with the given name. If a property with that name doesn’t exist, it returns the value of the attribute with the same name. If there’s no attribute with that name, None is returned.
Syntax –
element.get_attribute("attribute name")
Example –
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To find an element one needs to use one of the locating strategies, For example,
element = driver.find_element_by_id("link") element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@id='link']")
Also, to find multiple elements, we can use –
elements = driver.find_elements_by_id("link")
Now one can get attribute of this field with
element.get_attribute('href')
How to use get_attribute method in Selenium Python ?
Let’s use https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ to illustrate this method in Selenium Pythpn . Here we get href attribute of courses tab in navigation bar at geeksforgeeks.
Program –
# import webdriver from selenium import webdriver # create webdriver object driver = webdriver.Firefox() # enter keyword to search keyword = "geeksforgeeks" # get geeksforgeeks.org # get element element = driver.find_element_by_link_text( "Courses" ) # get href attribute print (element.get_attribute( 'href' )) |
Output-
Terminal Output –
Last Updated on March 1, 2022 by admin