The name attribute of a BeautifulSoup Tag is the name of the HTML tag that it corresponds to.
```python
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup('<ex class="example">\
    This is an example</ex>', 'html.parser')

tag = soup.ex
# <ex class='example'>This is an example</ex>

tag.name
# 'ex'
```

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- name
- attrs
- contents
- descendants
- parent
- next_sibling
- previous_sibling
- text

BeautifulSoup Tag attributes

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BeautifulSoup Documentation

BeautifulSoup Tag: name

The attrs attribute of Tag returns a dictionary of attribute-value pairs of the tag.
```python
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup('<ex class="example">\
    This is an example</ex>', 'html.parser')

tag = soup.ex
# <ex class='example'>This is an example</ex>

tag.attrs
# {'class': ['example']}
```

BeautifulSoup Tag: attrs

The text attribute of a BeautifulSoup Tag returns the text of the tag as a string.
```python
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup('<ex class="example">\
    This is an example</ex>', 'html.parser')

tag = soup.ex
# <ex class='example'>This is an example</ex>

tag.text
# 'This is an example'
```

BeautifulSoup Tag: text

The next_sibling attribute of a BeautifulSoup Tag returns the next tag in the same level of the tree.

BeautifulSoup Tag: next_sibling

The previous_sibling attribute of a BeautifulSoup Tag returns the previous tag in the same level of the tree.

BeautifulSoup Tag: previous_sibling

The contents attribute of a BeautifulSoup Tag returns a list of children within the tag.

BeautifulSoup Tag: contents

The parent attribute of a BeautifulSoup Tag returns the parent tag that encapsulates the tag.

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