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Method Description
The HTML tags appearing at the same indentation level are called siblings. The next_sibling property of the PageElement returns next tag at the same level, or under the same parent.
Syntax
element.next_sibling
Return type
The next_sibling property returns a PageElement, a Tag or a NavigableString object.
Example 1
The index.html wage page consists of a HTML form with three input elements each with a name attribute. In the following example, the next sibling of an input tag with name attribute as nm is located.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
fp = open("index.html")
soup = BeautifulSoup(fp, ''html.parser'')
tag = soup.find(''input'', {''name'':''age''})
print (tag.find_previous())
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
fp = open("index.html")
soup = BeautifulSoup(fp, ''html.parser'')
tag = soup.find(''input'', {''id'':''nm''})
sib = tag.next_sibling
print (sib)
Output
<input id="nm" name="name" type="text"/>
Example 2
In the next example, we have a HTML document with a couple of tags inside a <p> tag. The next_sibling property returns the tag next to <b> tag in it.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup("<p><b>Hello</b><i>Python</i></p>", ''html.parser'')
tag1 = soup.b
print ("next:",tag1.next_sibling)
Output
next: <i>Python</i>
Example 3
Consider the HTML string in the following document. It has two <p> tags at the same level. The next_sibling of first <p> should give the second <p> tag”s contents.
html = ''''''
<p><b>Hello</b><i>Python</i></p>
<p>TutorialsPoint</p>
''''''
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, ''html.parser'')
tag1 = soup.p
print ("next:",tag1.next_sibling)
Output
next:
The blank line after the word next: is unexpected. But that”s because of the n character after the first <p> tag. Change the print statement as shown below to obtain the contents of the next_sibling
tag1 = soup.p
print ("next:",tag1.next_sibling.next_sibling)
Output
next: <p>TutorialsPoint</p>
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