How to find elements by class

Question

I\'m having trouble parsing HTML elements with \"class\" attribute using Beautifulsoup. The code looks like this

soup = BeautifulSoup(sdata)
mydivs = soup.fi         


        

Answer 1

CSS selectors

single class first match

soup.select_one('.stylelistrow')

list of matches

soup.select('.stylelistrow')

compound class (i.e. AND another class)

soup.select_one('.stylelistrow.otherclassname')
soup.select('.stylelistrow.otherclassname')

Spaces in compound class names e.g. class = stylelistrow otherclassname are replaced with ".". You can continue to add classes.

list of classes (OR - match whichever present

soup.select_one('.stylelistrow, .otherclassname')
soup.select('.stylelistrow, .otherclassname')

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bs4 4.7.1 +

Specific class whose innerText contains a string

soup.select_one('.stylelistrow:contains("some string")')
soup.select('.stylelistrow:contains("some string")')

Specific class which has a certain child element e.g. a tag

soup.select_one('.stylelistrow:has(a)')
soup.select('.stylelistrow:has(a)')