Get HTML Source of WebElement in Selenium WebDriver using Python

Question

I\'m using the Python bindings to run Selenium WebDriver:

from selenium import webdriver
wd = webdriver.Firefox()

I know I can grab a webel

Answer 1

There is not really a straight-forward way of getting the html source code of a webelement. You will have to use JS. I am not too sure about python bindings but you can easily do like this in Java. I am sure there must be something similar to JavascriptExecutor class in Python.

 WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("foo"));
 String contents = (String)((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].innerHTML;", element); 

Answer 2

Sure we can get all HTML source code with this script below in Selenium Python:

elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*")
source_code = elem.get_attribute("outerHTML")

If you you want to save it to file:

with open('c:/html_source_code.html', 'w') as f:
    f.write(source_code.encode('utf-8'))

I suggest saving to a file because source code is very very long.

Answer 3

And in PHPUnit selenium test it's like this:

$text = $this->byCssSelector('.some-class-nmae')->attribute('innerHTML');

Answer 4

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("foo"));
String contents = (String)((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].innerHTML;", element); 

This code really works to get JavaScript from source as well!

Answer 5

Java with Selenium 2.53.0

driver.getPageSource();

Answer 6

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:

$element->getAttribute('innerHTML');

Tested and works with the ChromeDriver.