I am trying an example from the BeautifulSoupDocs and found it acting weird. When I try to access the next_sibling value, instead of the "body" a '\n' is coming in to picture.
html_doc = """
<html><head><title>The Dormouse's story</title></head>
<body>
<p class="title"><b>The Dormouse's story</b></p>
<p class="story">Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were
<a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
<a href="http://example.com/lacie" class="sister" id="link2">Lacie</a> and
<a href="http://example.com/tillie" class="sister" id="link3">Tillie</a>;
and they lived at the bottom of a well.</p>
<p class="story">...</p>
"""
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc)
soup.head.next_sibling
u'\n'
I am using latest version of beautifulSoup4. i.e 4.3.2. Please help me out. Thanks in advance.
There are 3 kinds of objects that
BeautifulSoup"sees" in the HTML:TagNavigableStringCommentWhen you get
.next_siblingit returns you the next object after the current which, in your case, is a text node (NavigableString). Explained in the documentation here.If you want to find the next
Tagafter the current, usefind_next_sibling(), or, with specifying the tag name:find_next_sibling("body").You can also use the "next sibling" CSS Selector: