find element_by(by="tagName", value="body")

Question

I Have a selenium bot I'm working on that works fine. But I can't find the accurate syntax I shall use to grep the body element. To reach an element I generally just use something like this:

canvas = driver.find_element("id", "canvas")

But for the body element, no one of the regular syntax works. I've tried:

find element_by("tagName", "body")
find element_by(by="tagName", value="body")

and different versions of tag_name, tagName, and so forth. I Can't use the By. since I have not imported it yet, which is a piece of cake anyway, but should it be necessary and would that help?

Answer 1

i suggest to use xpath find_element_by_xpath() as it is well known and comparably easy to use.

For a first introduction have a look at:

W3-Schools_xpath_tutorial

For identifiying the HTML elements see:

octoparse_locate_xpath

And for you future xpath´s there is this cool cheatsheet:

devhints_xpath