Find Elements by Name
To find HTML Elements by name attribute using Selenium in Python, call find_elements() method and pass By.NAME as the first argument, and the name attribute’s value (of the HTML Element we need to find) as the second argument.
find_elements(By.NAME, "name_value")find_elements() method returns all the HTML Elements, that match the given name, as a list.
If there is no elements by given name, find_elements() function returns an empty list.
Example
Consider the HTML document at the URL https://pythonexamples.org/tmp/selenium/index-54.html, with the following HTML content.
HTML Webpage
<html>
<body>
<div name="xyz">Div 1</div>
<div name="abc">Div 2</div>
<div name="xyz">Div 3</div>
</body>
</html>In the following program, we will find all the HTML elements whose name attribute has a value of 'xyz', 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('https://pythonexamples.org/tmp/selenium/index-54.html')
# Find elements by name attribute
my_elements = driver.find_elements(By.NAME, 'xyz')
for element in my_elements:
print(element.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
# Close the driver
driver.quit()Output
<div name="xyz">Div 1</div>
<div name="xyz">Div 3</div>Summary
In this Python Selenium tutorial, we learned how to find all the elements by given name attribute, in webpage, using Selenium.