How to get outer html from python playwright locator object?

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I could not find any method that returns outer html from python playwright page.locator(selector, **kwargs). Am I missing something? locator.inner_html(**kwargs) do exists. However, I am trying to use pandas.read_html and it fails on table locator inner html as it trips table tag.

What I'm currently doing is using bs4 to parse page.content(). something like:

soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content(), 'lxml')
df = pd.read_html(str(soup.select('table.selector')))

hardkoded · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-28 12:22:14Z

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There is no outer_html out of the box. But it's not hard to implement it:

locator.evaluate("el => el.outerHTML")

answered Jan 28, 2022 at 12:22

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Je Je Over a year ago

could be an idea to add an out of the box way. I instictively tried await locator.content(), which bugged but your solution works perfectly. tx a lot

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