How to find Elements by Class Name using Selenium Python

Find Elements by Class Name

To find HTML Elements by class name attribute using Selenium in Python, call find_elements() method, pass By.CLASS_NAME as the first argument, and the class name (of the HTML Elements we need to find) as the second argument.

find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, "class_name_value")

find_elements() method returns all the HTML Elements that match the given class name as a list.

If there is no elements by given class name, find_elements() function returns an empty list.

Example

Consider the HTML document at the URL /tmp/selenium/index-58.html, with the following HTML content.

HTML Webpage

<html>
 <body>
  <p>Paragraph 1</p>
  <div class="flat-button">Button 1</div>
  <div class="flat-button">Button 2</div>
  <div class="card">Card 1</div>
  <div class="card">Card 2</div>
 </body>
</html>

In the following program, we will find all the HTML elements whose class name is 'flat-button', using find_elements() method, and print those elements to the console.

Python Program (Selenium)

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

# Setup chrome driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()))

# Navigate to the url
driver.get('/tmp/selenium/index-58.html')

# Find elements whose Class Name = "flat-button"
my_elements = driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, 'flat-button')
for element in my_elements:
    print(element.get_attribute("outerHTML"))

# Close the driver
driver.quit()

Output

<div class="flat-button">Button 1</div>
<div class="flat-button">Button 2</div>

Summary

In this Python Selenium tutorial, we learned how to find all the elements by class name, present in the webpage, using Selenium.

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