Is there any way to get the class name of an element on click with selenium

Question

I am trying to figure out if there is any way to get the class name of some element when the user clicks on the element with selenium.

The way this would work is

1. The user opens a webpage with selenium
2. The user clicks on an element in the opened browser
3. the respective class name of the element is returned to the user

I know we can search for elements in a webpage with their ids or classes using driver.find_element_by_id or driver.find_element_by_xpath but can we do the reverse with selenium?

Answer 1

you mentioned user clicks on an element using selenium.
In that case, I would assume you already know the element to click on.

And therefore can use element.getAttribute("class") to get the class Name of the object.