Beautiful Soup - wrap() Method

Method Description

The wrap() method in Beautiful Soup encloses the element inside another element. You can wrap an existing tag element with another, or wrap the tag's string with a tag.

Syntax

wrap(tag)

Parameters

The tag to be wrapped with.

Return Type

The method returns a new wrapper with the given tag.

Example 1

In this example, the <b> tag is wrapped in <div> tag.

html = '''
<html>
   <body>
      <p>The quick, <b>brown</b> fox jumps over a lazy dog.</p>
   </body>
</html>
'''
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
tag1 = soup.find('b')
newtag = soup.new_tag('div')
tag1.wrap(newtag)
print (soup)

Output

<html>
<body>
<p>The quick, <div><b>brown</b></div> fox jumps over a lazy dog.</p>
</body>
</html>

Example 2

We wrap the string inside the <p> tag with a wrapper tag.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup("<p>tutorialspoint.com</p>", 'html.parser')
soup.p.string.wrap(soup.new_tag("b"))

print (soup)

Output

<p><b>tutorialspoint.com</b></p>
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