Need to dump entire DOM tree with element id from selenium server

Question

I have been using python selenium for web automation testing. The key part of automation is to find the right element for a user-visible object in a HTML page. The followin

Answer 1

Try:

find_elements_by_xpath("//*")

That should match all elements in the document.

UPDATE (to match question refinements):

Use javascript and return the DOM as a string:

execute_script("return document.documentElement.outerHTML")