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 -
Navigating links using get method – Selenium Python. 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 -
Locating StrategiesThis article revolves around how to use
size
method in Selenium.
size
method is used to get size of current element.
Syntax -element.sizeExample - html
<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 size of this element with -
element.sizeHow to use size element method in Selenium Python ?
Let's try to get element and its size at geeksforgeeks using
sizemethod.
Program - Python3
# 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 rect
print(element.size)
Output- Terminal Output -
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HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4