Beautiful Soup - append() Method

Method Description

The append() method in Beautiful Soup adds a given string or another tag at the end of the current Tag object's contents. The append() method works similar to the append() method of Python's list object.

Syntax

append(obj)

Parameters

• obj − any PageElement, may be a string, a NavigableString object or a Tag object.

Return Type

The append() method doesn't return a new object.

Example - Appending text to p tag

In the following example, the HTML script has a <p> tag. With append(), additional text is appended. In the following example, the HTML script has a <p> tag. With append(), additional text is appended.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

markup = '<p>Hello</p>'
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup, 'html.parser')
print (soup)
tag = soup.p

tag.append(" World")
print (soup) 

Output

<p>Hello</p>
<p>Hello World</p>

Example - Appending a New Tag to an Existing Tag

With the append() method, you can add a new tag at the end of an existing tag. First create a new Tag object with new_tag() method and then pass it to the append() method.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, Tag

markup = '<b>Hello</b>'
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup, 'html.parser')

tag = soup.b 
tag1 = soup.new_tag('i')
tag1.string = 'World'
tag.append(tag1)
print (soup.prettify()) 

Output

   <b>
      Hello
   <i>
      World
   </i>
</b>

Example - Appending a String to the document

If you have to add a string to the document, you can append a NavigableString object.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, NavigableString

markup = '<b>Hello</b>'
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup, 'html.parser')

tag = soup.b 
new_string = NavigableString(" World")
tag.append(new_string)
print (soup.prettify())

Output

<b>
   Hello
   World
</b>