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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index 81659ed..ba3b54e 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -1130,7 +1130,7 @@ up tags like <html> and <title>, because those tags don't define If you pass in a function to filter on a specific attribute like ``href``, the argument passed into the function will be the attribute value, not the whole tag. Here's a function that finds all ``a`` tags -whose ``href`` attribute _does not_ match a regular expression:: +whose ``href`` attribute *does not* match a regular expression:: def not_lacie(href): return href and not re.compile("lacie").search(href) @@ -1359,6 +1359,12 @@ tags whose ``.string`` is "Elsie":: soup.find_all("a", string="Elsie") # [<a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="link1">Elsie</a>] +The ``string`` argument is new in Beautiful Soup 4.4.0. In earlier +versions it was called ``text``:: + + soup.find_all("a", text="Elsie") + # [<a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="link1">Elsie</a>] + .. _limit: The ``limit`` argument @@ -3120,11 +3126,11 @@ B.string. (Previously, it was None.) their values, not strings. This may affect the way you search by CSS class. -If you pass one of the ``find*`` methods both :ref:`text <text>` `and` +If you pass one of the ``find*`` methods both :ref:`string <string>` `and` a tag-specific argument like :ref:`name <name>`, Beautiful Soup will search for tags that match your tag-specific criteria and whose -:ref:`Tag.string <.string>` matches your value for :ref:`text -<text>`. It will `not` find the strings themselves. Previously, +:ref:`Tag.string <.string>` matches your value for :ref:`string +<string>`. It will `not` find the strings themselves. Previously, Beautiful Soup ignored the tag-specific arguments and looked for strings. |