HTML Element Parsing by ID Using lxml

This function uses the lxml library to parse HTML content and returns the specified HTML element by ID.

Technology Stack : lxml library, HTML parsing

Code Type : HTML parsing function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def parse_html_element_by_id(html_content, element_id):
    from lxml import etree
    parser = etree.HTMLParser()
    tree = etree.fromstring(html_content, parser)
    element = tree.xpath(f'//*[@id="{element_id}"]')[0]
    return element