find_elements_by_class_name() driver method - Selenium Python
Last Updated :
12 Jul, 2025
Selenium's Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provide a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. After you have installed selenium and checked out - Navigating links using the get method, you might want to play more with Selenium Python. After one has opened a page using selenium such as geeksforgeeks, one might want to click some buttons automatically or fill a form automatically or any such automated task.
This article revolves around how to grab or locate elements in a webpage using locating strategies of Selenium Web Driver. More specifically, find_elements_by_class_name() is discussed in this article. This method returns a list with the type of elements specified.
To grab a single first element, checkout - find_element_by_class_name() driver method – Selenium Python
Syntax -
driver.find_elements_by_class_name("class-name")
Example -
For instance, consider this page source:
HTML
Now after you have created a driver, you can grab an element using -
login_form = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('form-control')
How to use driver.find_elements_by_class_name() method in Selenium?
Let's try to practically implement this method and get an element instance for "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/". Let's try to grab search form input using its class "GSC-input"
Create a file called run.py to demonstrate find_elements_by_class_name method -
Python3
# Python program to demonstrate
# selenium
# import webdriver
from selenium import webdriver
# create webdriver object
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
# enter keyword to search
keyword = "geeksforgeeks"
# get geeksforgeeks.org
driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/")
# get elements
elements = driver.find_elements_by_class_name("gsc-input")
# print complete elements list
print(element)
Now run using -
Python run.py
First, it will open the firefox window with geeksforgeeks, and then select the element and print it on the terminal as shown below.
Browser Output -
Terminal Output -
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