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is_selected() 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 check if element is selected or not. It returns a boolean value

or

.It can be used to check if a checkbox or radio button is selected.

element.is_selected()

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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 check if this element is being displayed with

text_length = element.is_selected()

Let's use https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ to illustrate this method in Selenium Python . Here we check if courses tab is selected in navigation bar at geeksforgeeks.

# import webdriver
from selenium import webdriver

# create webdriver object
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

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

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

# print value
print(element.is_selected())

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