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Asked: 2026-06-02T08:10:48+00:00

Assuming my HTML is: <html><body><span>This is my text</span></body></html> How do I get a string

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Assuming my HTML is:

<html><body><span>This is my text</span></body></html>

How do I get a string representation of what’s contained inside , i.e:

<span>This is my text</span>
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  1. Editorial Team

    To get the html representation of an element just use the built in str function:

    soup = BeautifulSoup("<html><body><span>This is my text</span></body></html>")
span = soup.find('span')
str(span) # Outputs '<span>This is my text</span>'
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