BeautifulSoup allows us to find sibling elements using 4 main functions:
- find_previous_sibling to find the single previous sibling
- find_next_sibling to find the single next sibling
- find_all_next to find all the next siblings
- find_all_previous to find all previous siblings
You can use the code below to find the previous sibling, next sibling, all next siblings and all previous siblings of the Main Paragraph element:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html_content = '''
<p>First paragraph</p>
<p>Second Paragraph</p>
<p id="main">Main Paragraph</p>
<p>Fourth Paragraph</p>
<p>Fifth Pragaraph</p>
'''
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser')
main_element = soup.find("p", attrs={"id": "main"})
# Find the previous sibling:
print(main_element.find_previous_sibling())
# Find the next sibling:
print(main_element.find_next_sibling())
# Find all next siblings:
print(main_element.find_all_next())
# Find all previous siblings:
print(main_element.find_all_previous())