CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonbeautifulsoup
nueq
nueq

Reputation: 309

Add new HTML tag after current tag

I have a loop:

for tag in soup.find('article'):

I need to add a new tag after each tag in this loop. I tried to use the insert() method to no avail.

How can I solve this task with BeautifulSoup?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 9715

Answers (1)

akuiper
akuiper

Reputation: 214957

You can use insert_after, and also you probably need find_all instead of find if you are trying to iterate through the node set:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup("""<article>1</article><article>2</article><article>3</article>""")

for article in soup.find_all('article'):

    # create a new tag
    new_tag = soup.new_tag("tagname")
    new_tag.append("some text here")

    # insert the new tag after the current tag
    article.insert_after(new_tag)

soup

<html>
    <body>
        <article>1</article>
        <tagname>some text here</tagname>
        <article>2</article>
        <tagname>some text here</tagname>
        <article>3</article>
        <tagname>some text here</tagname>
    </body>
</html>

Upvotes: 16

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