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- Beautiful Soup - next_siblings Property
- Beautiful Soup - previous_siblings Property
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- Beautiful Soup - find_previous_sibling Method
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Beautiful Soup - previous_sibling Property
Method Description
The HTML tags appearing at the same indentation level are called siblings. The previous_sibling property of the PageElement returns a previous tag (a tag appearing before the current tag) at the same level, or under the same parent. This property encapsulates the find_previous_sibling() method.
Syntax
element.previous_sibling
Return type
The previous_sibling property returns a PageElement, a Tag or a NavigableString object.
Example 1
In the following code, the HTML string consists of two adjacent tags inside a <p> tag. It shows the sibling tag for <b> tag appearing before it.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup fp = open("index.html") soup = BeautifulSoup("<p><b>Hello</b><i>Python</i></p>", 'html.parser') tag = soup.i sibling = tag.previous_sibling print (sibling)
Output
<b>Hello</b>
Example 2
We are using the index.html file for parsing. The page contains a HTML form with three input elements. Which element is a previous sibling of input element with its id attribute as age? The following code shows it −
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup fp = open("index.html") soup = BeautifulSoup(fp, 'html.parser') tag = soup.find('input', {'id':'age'}) sib = tag.previous_sibling.previous_sibling print (sib)
Output
<input id="nm" name="name" type="text"/>
Example 3
First we find the <p> tag containing the string 'Tutorial' and then fins a tag previous to it.
html = ''' <p>Excellent</p><p>Python</p><p>Tutorial</p> ''' from bs4 import BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser') tag = soup.find('p', string='Tutorial') print (tag.previous_sibling)
Output
<p>Python</p>
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