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Accessing an element's parent Checking if a tag contains any child elements Getting all child nodes Getting all immediate children Getting all parent tags of a tag Getting nth child element Getting number of child elements of a tag Getting number of direct child elements of a tag

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Accessing an element's parent in Beautiful Soup

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Example

Consider the following HTML document:


        
        
            
                
                
                    my_html = """
       <div id="names">
              <p>Alex</p>
              <p>Bob</p>
       </div>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)

The parent property of elements

To get the parent of the first p tag:


        
        
            
                
                
                    soup.find("p").parent
                
            
            <div id="names">
   <p>Alex</p>
   <p>Bob</p>
</div>"

The parent property of strings

All NavigableString objects, accessed via the tag's string property, also possess the parent property. The parent in this context represents the tag that encloses the string.

For instance, the parent of Alex string is:


        
        
            
                
                
                    soup.find("p").string.parent
                
            
            <p>Alex</p>

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