find_elements_by_tag_name() driver method Selenium Python (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

Selenium's Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provide a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. After you have installed selenium and checked out - Navigating links using the get method, you might want to play more with Selenium Python. After one has opened a page using selenium such as geeksforgeeks, one might want to click some buttons automatically or fill a form automatically or any such automated task.
This article revolves around how to grab or locate elements in a webpage using locating strategies of Selenium Web Driver. More specifically, find_elements_by_tag_name() is discussed in this article. This method returns a list with the type of elements specified.
To grab a single first element, checkout - [find_element_by_tag_name() driver method – Selenium Python](http://find%5Felement%5Fby%5Ftag%5Fname%28%29 driver method – Selenium Python)
Syntax -

driver.find_elements_by_tag_name("tag name")

Example -
For instance, consider this page source:

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Now after you have created a driver, you can grab an element using -

login_form = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('form')

How to use driver.find_elements_by_tag_name() method in Selenium?

Let's try to practically implement this method and get an element instance for "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/". Let's try to grab the title of posts using the tag "h2".
Create a file called run.py to demonstrate find_elements_by_tag_name method -

Python3 `

Python program to demonstrate

selenium

import webdriver

from selenium import webdriver

create webdriver object

driver = webdriver.Firefox()

enter keyword to search

keyword = "geeksforgeeks"

get geeksforgeeks.org

driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/")

get elements

elements = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name("h2")

print complete elements list

print(element)

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Now run using -

Python run.py

First, it will open the firefox window with geeksforgeeks, and then select the element and print it on the terminal as shown below.
Browser Output -

Terminal Output -