How to select an element by an attribute of a tag in python

Question

I am trying to access the text of multiple tags using selenium in python.

The tags do not have attribute like id or class; they have an attribute named itemprop.

For instance there are multiple tags of such type:

<p itemprop="articleBody">
London's Gatwick Airport ........</p>

I can't use "select element by tag name" because there are tag "p" with different attributes which I don't want to include.

I am using the below code to select these elements:

elements = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, """p[itemprop='articleBody’]""")

However it throws the error - ......

NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"p[itemprop='articleBody’]"}

How can I fix this?

Corrected Instance For instance there are multiple tags of such type (p itemprop="articleBody")....London's Gatwick Airport ........(/p) — Harendra Singh
– Harendra Singh, Commented Dec 22, 2018 at 13:43

ewwink · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-22 15:55:31Z

1

you have smart quote ’ in the selector, use find_elements* with s to get multiple elements.

elements = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'p[itemprop="articleBody"]')
# Or
elements = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('p[itemprop="articleBody"]')

answered Dec 22, 2018 at 15:55

ewwink

19.3k2 gold badges49 silver badges56 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

2 Comments

Harendra Singh Over a year ago

thank you. It worked. However, I did not understand the difference why single quotes did not work?

ewwink Over a year ago

you can use single quotes and it different with the smart quotes.

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

How to select an element by an attribute of a tag in python

1 Answer 1

2 Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

2 Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related