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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index 654a3a4..cd1ab2f 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -1262,6 +1262,16 @@ dictionary and passing the dictionary into ``find_all()`` as the data_soup.find_all(attrs={"data-foo": "value"}) # [<div data-foo="value">foo!</div>] +Similarly for HTML's 'name' attribute, which you can't use as a +keyword argument because Beautiful Soup uses the ``name`` argument to +contain the name of the tag itself. + + name_soup = BeautifulSoup('<input name="email"/>') + name_soup.find_all(name="email") + # [] + name_soup.find_all(attrs={"name": "email"}) + # [<input name="email"/>] + .. _attrs: Searching by CSS class |