Get the inner HTML of a element in lxml

python xpath lxml

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Solution 1

from lxml import etree
print(etree.tostring(root, pretty_print=True))

you may see more examples here: http://lxml.de/tutorial.html

Solution 2

I believe you want to use the tostring() method:

from lxml import etree

tree = etree.fromstring('<html><head><title>foo</title></head><body><div class="name"><p>foo</p></div><div class="name"><ul><li>bar</li></ul></div></body></html>')
for elem in tree.xpath("//div[@class='name']"):
     # pretty_print ensures that it is nicely formatted.
     print etree.tostring(elem, pretty_print=True)

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Updated on October 10, 2021

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Sudip Kafle over 2 years
I am trying to get the HTML content of child node with lxml and xpath in Python. As shown in code below, I want to find the html content of the each of product nodes. Does it have any methods like product.html?
```
productGrids = tree.xpath("//div[@class='name']/parent::*")
for product in productGrids:
    print #html content of product
```