find_element_by_tag_name() driver method – Selenium Python

Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provide a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. After you have installed selenium and checked out – Navigating links using get method, you might want to play more with Selenium Python. After one has opened a page using selenium such as neveropen, one might want to click some buttons automatically or fill a form automatically or any such automated task. 

This article revolves around how to grab or locate elements in a webpage using locating strategies of Selenium Web Driver. More specifically, find_element(By.TAG_NAME, ) is discussed in this article. With this strategy, the first element with the given tag name will be returned. If no element has a matching tag name, a NoSuchElementException will be raised.

Syntax – 

driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, "Tag name")

Example – 

For instance, consider this page source:  

Now after you have created a driver, you can grab an element using – 

login_form = driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, 'h1') 

How to use driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, ) method in Selenium?

Let’s try to practically implement this method and get a element instance for “https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/”. Let’s try to grab first title using its tag “h2”. 

Create a file called run.py to demonstrate find_element(By.TAG_NAME) method –  

Now run using – 

Python run.py

First, it will open firefox window with neveropen, and then select the element and print it on terminal as shown below. 

Browser Output –  

Terminal Output – 

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