Beautiful Soup - extend() Method

Method Description

The extend() method in Beautiful Soup has been added to Tag class from version 4.7 onwards. It adds all the elements in a list to the tag. This method is analogous to a standard Python List's extend() method - it takes in an array of strings to append to the tag's content.

Syntax

extend(tags)

Parameters

• tags − A list of srings or NavigableString objects to be appended.

Return Type

The extend() method doesn't return any new object.

Example - Appending a List of strings to a Tag

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

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

tag = soup.b 
vals = ['World.', 'Welcome to ', 'TutorialsPoint']
tag.extend(vals)
print (soup.prettify())

Output

<b>
   Hello
   World.
   Welcome to
   TutorialsPoint
</b>