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Asked: 2026-06-17T10:05:13+00:00

So I have a html like this: … <ul class=myclass> <li>blah</li> <li>blah2</li> </ul> …

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So I have a html like this:

...
<ul class="myclass">
    <li>blah</li>
    <li>blah2</li>
</ul>
...

I want to get the texts “blah” and “blah2” from the ul with the class name “myclass”

So I tried to use innerhtml(), but for some reason it doesn’t work with lxml.

I’m using Python 3.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would try:

    doc.xpath('.//ul[@class = "myclass"]/li/text()')
# out: ["blah","blah2"]

    edit:

    what if there was a <a> in the <li>? for example, how would I get "link" and text" from <li><a href="link">text</a></li>?

    link = doc.xpath('.//ul[@class = "myclass"]/li/a/@href')
txt= doc.xpath('.//ul[@class = "myclass"]/li/a/text()')

    If you want you can combine those, and if we take @larsmans example, you can use '//' to get the whole text, because I belive that lxml does’t support the string() method in an expression.

    doc.xpath('.//ul[@class="myclass"]/li[a]//text() | .//ul[@class="myclass"]/li/a/@href')
# out: ['I contain a ', 'http://example.com', 'link', '.']

    Also, you can use the text_content() method:

    html=\
"""
<html>
<ul class="myclass">
    <li>I contain a <a href="http://example.com">link</a>.</li>
    <li>blah</li>
    <li>blah2</li>
</ul>
</html>
"""
import lxml.html as lh
doc=lh.fromstring(html)
for elem in doc.xpath('.//ul[@class="myclass"]/li'):
    print elem.text_content()

    prints:

    #I contain a link.
#blah
#blah2
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