Class Element

requests_html.py:365–402

An element of HTML. :param element: The element from which to base the parsing upon. :param url: The URL from which the HTML originated, used for ``absolute_links``. :param default_encoding: Which encoding to default to.

class Element(BaseParser):
    """An element of HTML.

    :param element: The element from which to base the parsing upon.
    :param url: The URL from which the HTML originated, used for ``absolute_links``.
    :param default_encoding: Which encoding to default to.
    """

    __slots__ = [
        'element', 'url', 'skip_anchors', 'default_encoding', '_encoding',
        '_html', '_lxml', '_pq', '_attrs', 'session'
    ]

    def __init__(self, *, element, url: _URL, default_encoding: _DefaultEncoding = None) -> None:
        super(Element, self).__init__(element=element, url=url, default_encoding=default_encoding)
        self.element = element
        self.tag = element.tag
        self.lineno = element.sourceline
        self._attrs = None

    def __repr__(self) -> str:
        attrs = ['{}={}'.format(attr, repr(self.attrs[attr])) for attr in self.attrs]
        return "<Element {} {}>".format(repr(self.element.tag), ' '.join(attrs))

    @property
    def attrs(self) -> _Attrs:
        """Returns a dictionary of the attributes of the :class:`Element <Element>`
        (`learn more <https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_attributes.asp>`_).
        """
        if self._attrs is None:
            self._attrs = {k: v for k, v in self.element.items()}

            # Split class and rel up, as there are ussually many of them:
            for attr in ['class', 'rel']:
                if attr in self._attrs:
                    self._attrs[attr] = tuple(self._attrs[attr].split())

        return self._attrs


class HTML(BaseParser):