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parent 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 internal reference to the WebDriver instance this element was found from.

element.parent

<input type="text" name="passwd" id="passwd-id" />

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

element = driver.find_element_by_id("passwd-id")
element = driver.find_element_by_name("passwd")
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='passwd-id']")

Also, to find multiple elements, we can use -

elements = driver.find_elements_by_name("passwd")

Now one can get parent of this element with -

element.parent

Let's try to get element and its parent method on geeksforgeeksusing

method.

# 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_id("gsc-i-id2")

# get parent
print(element.parent)

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