Get Element Tag Name

The Get Element Tag Name command of the WebDriver API returns the tag name of the referenced web element. If for example the element is an <img>, the returned tag name is "IMG", which is equivalent to calling Element.tagName on the element. For XML/XHTML documents it may be cased differently.

session id

Identifier of the session.

element id

Identifier of the web element to get the tag name of.

Session not created

Session does not exist.

No such window

The window object has been discarded, indicating that the tab or window has been closed.

Unexpected alert open

A user prompt, such as window.alert, blocks execution of command until it is dealt with.

Python:

from selenium import webdriver

session = webdriver.Firefox()
session.get("https://google.com/?hl=en")
search_box = driver.find_element_by_id("q")

print(search_box.tag_name)

Output:

INPUT