How to get HTML Source of WebElement in Selenium WebDriver using Python

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I'm using the Python bindings to run Selenium WebDriver.

from selenium import webdriver
wd = webdriver.Firefox()

I’m getting web element

elem = wd.find_element_by_css_selector('#my-id')

I’m getting the full page source with...

wd.page_source

But what are other ways to get the "element source"?

elem.source   # <-- returns the HTML as a string

How to access the HTML of an element (and its children)?

Jun 14, 2018 in Selenium by Martin
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2 answers to this question.

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You can read innerHTML attribute to get source of the content of the element or outerHTML for source with the current element.

Python:

element.get_attribute('innerHTML')

Java:

elem.getAttribute("innerHTML");

C#:

element.GetAttribute("innerHTML");

Ruby:

element.attribute("innerHTML")

JS:

element.getAttribute('innerHTML');

PHP:

$elem.getAttribute('innerHTML');

Tested and works with the ChromeDriver

I hope this helps!

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answered Jun 14, 2018 by Samarpit
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If you want to get the html of the element in python use:

ele.get_atrribute("outerHTML")
answered May 31, 2019 by Atul Singh

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