Get Element Tag Name

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

TheGet Element Tag Namecommand of theWebDriver API returns the tag name of the referencedweb element. If for example the element is an<img>, the returned tag name is"IMG", which is equivalent to callingElement.tagName on the element. For XML/XHTML documents it may be cased differently.

Syntax

Method	URI template
`GET`	`/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/name`

URL parameters

session id: Identifier of the session.
element id: Identifier of theweb element to get the tag name of.

Errors

Session not created: Session does not exist.
No such window: Thewindow object has been discarded, indicating that the tab or window has been closed.
Unexpected alert open: A user prompt, such aswindow.alert, blocks execution of command until it is dealt with.

Examples

Python:

python

from selenium import webdriversession = webdriver.Firefox()session.get("https://google.com/?hl=en")search_box = driver.find_element_by_id("q")print(search_box.tag_name)

Output: