html.parser.HTMLParser.handle_starttag()

HTMLParser.handle_starttag(tag, attrs)

This method is called to handle the start of a tag (e.g. <div id="main">).

The tag argument is the name of the tag converted to lower case. The attrs argument is a list of (name, value) pairs containing the attributes found inside the tag’s <> brackets. The name will be translated to lower case, and quotes in the value have been removed, and character and entity references have been replaced.

For instance, for the tag <A HREF="https://www.cwi.nl/">, this method would be called as handle_starttag('a', [('href', 'https://www.cwi.nl/')]).

All entity references from html.entities are replaced in the attribute values.