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Method Description
In Beautiful Soup library, the next_element property returns the Tag or NavigableString that appears immediately next to the current PageElement, even if it is out of the parent tree. There is also a next property which has similar behaviour
Syntax
Element.next_element
Return value
The next_element and next properties return a tag or a NavigableString appearing immediately next to the current tag.
Example 1
In the document tree parsed from the given HTML string, we find the next_element of the <b> tag
html = ''''''
<p><b>Excellent</b><p>Python</p><p id=''id1''>Tutorial</p></p>
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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, ''lxml'')
tag = soup.b
print (tag)
nxt = tag.next_element
print ("Next:",nxt)
nxt = tag.next_element.next_element
print ("Next:",nxt)
Output
<b>Excellent</b> Next: Excellent Next: <p>Python</p>
The output is a little strange as the next element for <b>Excellent</b> is shown to be ”Excellent”, that is because the inner string is registered as the next element. To obtain the desired result (<p>Python</p>) as the next element, fetch the next_element property of the inner NavigableString object.
Example 2
The BeautifulSoup PageElements also support next property which is analogous to next_element property
html = ''''''
<p><b>Excellent</b><p>Python</p><p id=''id1''>Tutorial</p></p>
''''''
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, ''lxml'')
tag = soup.b
print (tag)
nxt = tag.next
print ("Next:",nxt)
nxt = tag.next.next
print ("Next:",nxt)
Output
<b>Excellent</b> Next: Excellent Next: <p>Python</p>
Example 3
In the next example, we try to determine the element next to <body> tag. As it is followed by a line break (n), we need to find the next element of the one next to body tag. It happens to be <h1> tag.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
fp = open("index.html")
soup = BeautifulSoup(fp, ''html.parser'')
tag = soup.find(''body'')
nxt = tag.next_element.next
print ("Next:",nxt)
Output
Next: <h1>TutorialsPoint</h1>
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