Is there a way of getting outerHTML of outerHTML of a web element using Selenium in Python?

Question

I am using this for get a row in a table:

element = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(),'Sample Text')]")
html_text = element.get_attribute('outerHTML')

this gives me <td>...</td> but I want <tr><td>...</td><td>...</td></tr>

How do I do this?

Try //tr[contains(.,'Sample Text')] or //tr[td[contains(text(),'Sample Text')]] — Florent B.
– Florent B., Commented Nov 22, 2017 at 19:13
You need to share the relevant HTML along with the outerHTML which you are trying to retrieve. — undetected Selenium
– undetected Selenium, Commented Nov 23, 2017 at 8:37

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-22 19:19:34Z

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If you want to get outerHTML of parent element, you can use below

html_text = element.find_element_by_xpath('..').get_attribute('outerHTML')

answered Nov 22, 2017 at 19:19

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Sameera De Silva · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-02 07:50:36Z

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    String `val=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='fileToUpload']")).getAttribute("outerHTML");`

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answered Jun 2, 2020 at 7:45

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