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author | Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org> | 2016-12-11 10:24:58 -0500 |
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committer | Leonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org> | 2016-12-11 10:24:58 -0500 |
commit | cf7750630e32978c0095ee5ec4ea9206a35665de (patch) | |
tree | 0f50108745f3b07687571df06d02f074c7aca6f3 | |
parent | 264d1b9184ba5acb2cae3b7f8aa083da50975468 (diff) | |
download | beautifulsoup4-cf7750630e32978c0095ee5ec4ea9206a35665de.tar.gz |
Show how to use the attrs argument to search by the 'name' attribute. [bug=1639580]
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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index 654a3a4..cd1ab2f 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -1262,6 +1262,16 @@ dictionary and passing the dictionary into ``find_all()`` as the data_soup.find_all(attrs={"data-foo": "value"}) # [<div data-foo="value">foo!</div>] +Similarly for HTML's 'name' attribute, which you can't use as a +keyword argument because Beautiful Soup uses the ``name`` argument to +contain the name of the tag itself. + + name_soup = BeautifulSoup('<input name="email"/>') + name_soup.find_all(name="email") + # [] + name_soup.find_all(attrs={"name": "email"}) + # [<input name="email"/>] + .. _attrs: Searching by CSS class |