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Get HTML Source of WebElement in Selenium WebDriver using Python

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azharuddin Active particpant: Posts : 13
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Get HTML Source of WebElement in Selenium WebDriver using Python

Wed Jun 17, 2020 2:22 pm

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

Code:: from selenium import webdriver wd = webdriver.Firefox()

I know I can grab a webelement like so:

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

And I know I can get the full page source with...

Code:: wd.page_source

But is there anyway to get the "element source"?

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

The Selenium Webdriver docs for Python are basically non-existent and I don't see anything in the code that seems to enable that functionality.
Any thoughts on the best way to access the HTML of an element (and its children)?