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Method Description
The find_parent() method in BeautifulSoup package finds the closest parent of this PageElement that matches the given criteria.
Syntax
find_parent( name, attrs, **kwargs)
Parameters
-
name − A filter on tag name.
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attrs − A dictionary of filters on attribute values.
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kwargs − A dictionary of filters on attribute values.
Return Type
The find_parent() method returns Tag object or a NavigableString object.
Example 1
We shall use following HTML script in this example −
<html>
<body>
<h2>Departmentwise Employees</h2>
<ul id="dept">
<li>Accounts</li>
<ul id=''acc''>
<li>Anand</li>
<li>Mahesh</li>
</ul>
<li>HR</li>
<ol id="HR">
<li>Rani</li>
<li>Ankita</li>
</ol>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
In the following example, we find the name of the tag that is parent to the string ”HR”.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(html, ''html.parser'') obj=soup.find(string=''HR'') print (obj.find_parent().name)
Output
li
Example 2
The <body> tag is always enclosed within the top level <html> tag. In the following example, we confirm this fact with find_parent() method −
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, ''html.parser'')
obj=soup.find(''body'')
print (obj.find_parent().name)
Output
html
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