Getting Started with Beautiful Soup

Modifying string contents

In the preceding example, we added the two div tags without any contents to the HTML tree. We need to add the corresponding string in the name property of the div tag and also into the number property of the div tag. This can also be done in multiple ways using Beautiful Soup.

Using .string to modify the string content

We can use the .string attribute of a tag to modify the string content. So, we can add or modify the string value using the following code:

new_div_name_tag.string="phytoplankton" print(producer_entries.prettify()) #output <ul id="producers"> <li class="producerlist"> <div class="name"> plants </div> <div class="number"> 100000 </div> </li> <li class="producerlist"> <div class="name"> algae </div> <div class="number"> ...