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lxml ::
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HtmlElement ::
Class HtmlElement
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<h1 class="epydoc">Class HtmlElement</h1><p class="nomargin-top"><span class="codelink"><a href="lxml.html-pysrc.html#HtmlElement">source code</a></span></p>
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object --+
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<a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html" onclick="show_private();">etree._Element</a> --+
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<a href="lxml.etree.ElementBase-class.html">etree.ElementBase</a> --+
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object --+ |
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<a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html">HtmlMixin</a> --+
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<strong class="uidshort">HtmlElement</strong>
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<dl><dt>Known Subclasses:</dt>
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<li><a href="lxml.html.FormElement-class.html">FormElement</a></li><li>, <a href="lxml.html.InputElement-class.html">InputElement</a></li><li>, <a href="lxml.html.LabelElement-class.html">LabelElement</a></li><li>, <a href="lxml.html.SelectElement-class.html">SelectElement</a></li><li>, <a href="lxml.html.TextareaElement-class.html">TextareaElement</a></li> </ul>
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<td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.html.HtmlElement-class.html#cssselect" class="summary-sig-name">cssselect</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
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Run the CSS expression on this element and its children,
returning a list of the results.</td>
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<td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.html.HtmlElement-class.html#set" class="summary-sig-name">set</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
<span class="summary-sig-arg">key</span>,
<span class="summary-sig-arg">value</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">None</span>)</span><br />
Sets an element attribute. If no value is provided, or if the value is None,
creates a 'boolean' attribute without value, e.g. "<form novalidate></form>"
for <tt class="rst-docutils literal"><span class="pre">form.set('novalidate')</span></tt>.</td>
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<p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.etree.ElementBase-class.html">etree.ElementBase</a></code></b>:
<code><a href="lxml.etree.ElementBase-class.html#__init__">__init__</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree.ElementBase-class.html#__new__">__new__</a></code>
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<p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html" onclick="show_private();">etree._Element</a></code></b>:
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__contains__">__contains__</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__copy__">__copy__</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__deepcopy__">__deepcopy__</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__delitem__">__delitem__</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__getitem__">__getitem__</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__iter__">__iter__</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__len__">__len__</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__nonzero__">__nonzero__</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__repr__">__repr__</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__reversed__">__reversed__</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__setitem__">__setitem__</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#addnext">addnext</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#addprevious">addprevious</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#append">append</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#clear">clear</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#extend">extend</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#find">find</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#findall">findall</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#findtext">findtext</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#get">get</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getchildren">getchildren</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getiterator">getiterator</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getnext">getnext</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getparent">getparent</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getprevious">getprevious</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getroottree">getroottree</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#index">index</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#insert">insert</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#items">items</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#iter">iter</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#iterancestors">iterancestors</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#iterchildren">iterchildren</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#iterdescendants">iterdescendants</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#iterfind">iterfind</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#itersiblings">itersiblings</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#itertext">itertext</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#keys">keys</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#makeelement">makeelement</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#remove">remove</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#replace">replace</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#values">values</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#xpath">xpath</a></code>
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<div class="private"> <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html" onclick="show_private();">etree._Element</a></code></b> (private):
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#_init" onclick="show_private();">_init</a></code>
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<p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html">HtmlMixin</a></code></b>:
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#drop_tag">drop_tag</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#drop_tree">drop_tree</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#find_class">find_class</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#find_rel_links">find_rel_links</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#get_element_by_id">get_element_by_id</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#iterlinks">iterlinks</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#make_links_absolute">make_links_absolute</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#resolve_base_href">resolve_base_href</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#rewrite_links">rewrite_links</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#text_content">text_content</a></code>
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<p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code>object</code></b>:
<code>__delattr__</code>,
<code>__format__</code>,
<code>__getattribute__</code>,
<code>__hash__</code>,
<code>__reduce__</code>,
<code>__reduce_ex__</code>,
<code>__setattr__</code>,
<code>__sizeof__</code>,
<code>__str__</code>,
<code>__subclasshook__</code>
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<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#attrib">attrib</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#base">base</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#nsmap">nsmap</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#prefix">prefix</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#sourceline">sourceline</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#tag">tag</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#tail">tail</a></code>,
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<p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html">HtmlMixin</a></code></b>:
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#base_url">base_url</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#body">body</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#classes">classes</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#forms">forms</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#head">head</a></code>,
<code><a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#label">label</a></code>
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<h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">cssselect</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>,
<span class="sig-arg">expr</span>,
<span class="sig-arg">translator</span>=<span class="sig-default"><code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-string">html</code><code class="variable-quote">'</code></span>)</span>
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<p>Run the CSS expression on this element and its children,
returning a list of the results.</p>
<p>Equivalent to lxml.cssselect.CSSSelect(expr, translator='html')(self)
-- note that pre-compiling the expression can provide a substantial
speedup.</p>
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<a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#cssselect">HtmlMixin.cssselect</a>
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<span class="sig-arg">value</span>=<span class="sig-default">None</span>)</span>
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Sets an element attribute. If no value is provided, or if the value is None,
creates a 'boolean' attribute without value, e.g. "<form novalidate></form>"
for <tt class="rst-docutils literal"><span class="pre">form.set('novalidate')</span></tt>.
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<a href="lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html#set">HtmlMixin.set</a>
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