How to get tagName in playwright python

Question

I want to get the tagname tagName of element selector selected by get_by_text() method for example :

element = page.get_by_text("example", exact=True)

Answer 1

This is a rather unusual request, so there may be a better way to solve whatever fundamental problem you're trying to solve, but you can extract a tag from an element as follows:

element = page.get_by_text("example", exact=True)
tag_name = element.evaluate("el => el.tagName")

Complete, runnable example:

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright,expect # 1.43.0


html = '<span aria-hidden="true"><!---->Sr. Enterprise Cloud &amp; Snowflake Architect<!----></span>'


with sync_playwright() as p:
    browser = p.chromium.launch()
    page = browser.new_page()
    page.set_content(html)
    element = page.get_by_text("Sr. Enterprise Cloud & Snowflake Architect", exact=True)
    tag_name = element.evaluate("el => el.tagName")
    print(tag_name) # => SPAN
    browser.close()

If you're doing testing and anticipate a certain tag to be present, try:

expect(page.locator("p").locator("text='example'")).to_be_visible()

or without expect:

page.locator("p").locator("text='example'").wait_for()

Generally speaking, in testing, you don't want to care much about tag names since they're not user visible.