Tag
The Tag object represents different tags of HTML and XML documents. The creation of Tag objects is done when parsing the documents. The different HTML/XML tags identified during parsing are represented as corresponding Tag objects and these objects will have attributes and contents of the HTML/XML tag. The Tag objects can be used for searching and navigation within the HTML/XML document.
Accessing the Tag object from BeautifulSoup
BeautifulSoup allows us to access any Tag object. For example, we can access the first occurrence of the <a> tag in the next example by simply calling the name of the tag <a>.
html_atag = """<html><body><p>Test html a tag example</p> <a href="http://www.packtpub.com'>Home</a> <a href="http;//www.packtpub.com/books'>Books</a> ...
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