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get_property() element method - Selenium Python

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provides a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. To open a webpage using Selenium Python, checkout -

. Just being able to go to places isn’t terribly useful. What we’d really like to do is to interact with the pages, or, more specifically, the HTML elements within a page. There are multiple strategies to find an element using Selenium, checkout -

This article revolves around how to use

method in Selenium.

method is used to get properties of an element, such as getting

property of anchor tag. This method will first try to return the value of a property with the given name. If a property with that name doesn’t exist, it returns the value of the property with the same name.

name - Name of the property to retrieve.

element.get_property("property name")

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To find an element one needs to use one of the locating strategies, For example,

element = driver.find_element_by_id("link")
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@id='link']")

Also, to find multiple elements, we can use -

elements = driver.find_elements_by_id("link")

Now one can get property of this field with

text_length = element.get_property("text_length")

Let's use https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ to illustrate this method in Selenium Python . Here we get href property of courses tab in navigation bar at geeksforgeeks.

# import webdriver
from selenium import webdriver

# create webdriver object
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

# get geeksforgeeks.org
driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/")

# get element 
element = driver.find_element_by_link_text("Courses")

# get text_length property
print(element.get_property('href'))

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