I am trying to use Selenium with Python to click on a text field, which opens a pop-up panel, select the text entry area of that popup, and enter text to it.
switch_to_window and switch_to_frame don't seem to be working. In a previous question I asked about Selenium, someone told me to pause the program until the element I need is available. The solution worked for that problem, but not this one, so I'm assuming I have a different issue and I'm too new to Selenium to understand what it is.
This is what the original box I'm trying to click on looks like:
And the Inspect Element for this box:
When that description box is clicked, it should open this window:
And select this element to enter text into:
So in my code I have:
descriptionBox = driver.find_element_by_id('kiadvany_fulszoveg_text')
descriptionBox.click()
That does not error the program, but it also doesn't seem to actually be clicking on that element. To make matters more confusing, I got this to work exactly ONCE, where it opened the correct Description text box as pictured above, but it has since not worked at all even when I try the exact same thing.
The panel's ID is:
As I mentioned, switching to this panel ID using switch_to_frame or switch_to_window was the first thing I tried, but I'm getting a No Such Element error.
Because I saw the description box open correctly once, but never again, I'm assuming that's where the problem is. I wish, the one time it did pop up, that I'd tried to put the text into the field to see if that would work too, but I hadn't gotten there yet at that point, so I don't know if that would have worked.
Thank you in advance to anyone who can help with this!
Try this
descriptionBox = driver.find_element_by_id('kiadvany_fulszoveg_text')
driver.execute_script('arguments[0].click();', descriptionBox)
or
actions = ActionChains(driver)
actions.move_to_element(descriptionBox)
actions.click(descriptionBox)
actions.perform()
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I am writing a program that answers questions from a database. I am currently on the last question type (ordering questions). Here is an image of what the question looks like. The user needs to put the elements in the box in order.
As you can see, the bottom of the question gets cut off. This caused errors when trying to click certain elements that were below the page. To try and solve this I scrolled to the bottom of the page but selenium scrolled back to the top before clicking which kept the error in place. And after trying a few other things I decided to try and zoom out on the webpage to see them all at once.
This is the HTML of the list where the <p> tag is what I am trying to click on. Actually, I am trying to right-click but same thing. The rest of the <div>s with the ellipses are the rest of the boxes and are the same as the first one.
newheader = self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[contains(#class, 'responses-container')]")
action = ActionChains(self.driver)
action.context_click(WebDriverWait (newheader, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//p[contains(text(), '"+ dictionary_.get(prompt)[r] +"')]")))).perform()
# dictionary.get(prompt)[r] contains the values we are looking for (ovulation, fertilization, etc)
# I have also tried EC.element_to_be_clickable and had the same results
I have tested this on a question that does not overflow the page and it works perfectly. The only time I am getting errors is when I try to zoom out. I have tried refreshing the page before starting the clicking and after zooming out. I have also tried resetting the driver by calling
self.driver.get(self.driver.current_url)
Each of those elements cannot be left-clicked on to select. They can only be right-clicked or tabbed to. Tabbing requires calculations that are complex since each element is being moved dynamically so I chose to right-click instead. It does right-click but in seemingly random places now that it's zoomed out.
Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
I am working on a program that auto-completes questions. But the answers to the questions are choices and they will change every time.
There are four choices and I only want it to click one of them.
This work but the text will change every time: driver.find_element_by_xpath("//p[contains(text(),'The home of a person/ company.')]").click()
I have tried this: driver.find_element_by_class_name("choices").click() and it won't work.
So, I want no matter what the text part is, the program can search and click on it. But only clicking one of the choices.
Picture of the website with html
HTML:<p class="choices" xpath="1">The home of a person/ company.</p>
xpath of this://p[contains(text(),'The home of a person/ company.')]
absXpath:/html[1]/body[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/label[4]/p[1]
Please help.
first check wheather you are using correct xpath because the xpath changes as the position of options are changed. Also, according to your code you can use specific id for this problem because class can be provieded for multiple elements but id is unique.
To click the first option use css selector:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".tbtow.exercise_frame>.each_question.mc_question>label:nth-child(1)>p")
Check classes spelling by yourself because I typed them from the picture you provided. Also, experiment with :nth-of-type(1) instead of :nth-child(1)
To change position use :nth-of-type(2), :nth-of-type(3) and so on.
I should start by saying that I'm not a web developer but I have been using Selenium with Python for a few weeks and think I've gotten the basics down.
What I have is a page with a weekly calendar on it. Image as follows:
What happens is that you can click on any of the coloured boxes which will bring up a register for a class. It features items that you can click on which bring up new information. The problem I have is that I can't click on the items - or, rather, I don't know how to automate the click. I have automated clicking with Selenium before in other situations.
That looks as follows:
As you can see, the calendar still appears in the background. That is to say, the item we click on doesn't take us to a new page but, I suppose, runs some kind of method which shows the register and populates it with data.
My problem is this: I want to automate the process so that I can click on each of these items then scrape the information. In order to do that I need to be able to automate the clicking for each of the items.
So what have I done? When I've done this before, I've searched through the web html for the relevant part and then grabbed the xPath to the element I needed. But here I can't do that. Why not? Well, firstly, I just can't find that element!
Take a look at this close up of the first column:
It's divided into columns, but then I'd expect the clickable area to be an element within that. As you can see, it's not. Furthermore, the clickable area is just the coloured box itself, but if you look closely you can see the element goes outside of that area. I have gone very close with my mouse cursor to see exactly what's clickable, and it definitely is just the coloured box.
So I've not been able to get the element at all.
I thought I might be able to just find out where we went after I clicked the button, but when I got the link address, it just said it was the same page with no differences.
I appreciate I'm asking quite a broad question here, but the problem is that I don't really know where to start. If someone could give me at least that much, I would be grateful. Like if I could just click on each of these one at a time... I've found where the populated data is so I could grab that without a problem.
Well, here's to hoping.
Edit: I should add that there are some JavaScript items (tag type script, type='text/javascript'). I presume that the answer is in there somewhere, but there is a lot of Javascript and I'm not adept at reading it. It's hard for me to tell what script does what. If I could at least figure out what script runs when I click the item then I think I'd be onto something, but I have no idea. Even that would help me.
I had encountered similar problem when scraping for Instagram followers in mobile view where it was floating box when showing the accounts followers name. The approach I took was identifying the name of floating dialog box and clicking the element in it. It might different in your case of html.
Trying looking at this link. Selenium Scroll inside of popup div
Hard to say without the HTML. Maybe try Katalon Recorder (chrome extension) and see if that can detect the xpath for you? It might also be you have to use some kind of javascript to invoke the method for the element
one more problem i hv,i asked similar question earlier and i tried that method but not able use that methon in this problem so pls help me. it's element
html code is - Filters
So basically, question is that there is one button its kind of toggle button and i want click on that button to select device like Desktop, Tablet & Mobile all check boxes are already (default) selected now i have to uncheck or deselect device, to do this, first i have to click on that toggle button , when i click on toggle button its id (gwt-uid-598) 598 is getting changed every time or every refresh. Can you pls help me, what should or which method should i follow in this case.
i am using below python code.
Click on device Filters
elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="gwt-uid-598"]/div/div/span')
elem.click()
Thanks in advance.
Good question.
Try to use another selector, for example: css class or use xpath method contains().
Example: //div[contains(text(), "checkbox")]
I can help you if you can provide source code of the page or needed element.
As the title says, how can I .click() a button using Selenium, when the button gets "disabled" after using the method clear or send_keys?
Before:
That's the page status when I open it's url... but then right after I run my code to find the textbox and replace it's value, the element gets disabled (maybe by some sort of JS) right after I clear it's content or write something to it using send_keys.
After:
Code:
txt_value = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#id="txtValor4"]')
txt_value.clear() #this disables the button
txt_value.send_keys(str(123,45)) #this also disables the button
My question is:
How can I bypass this website protection and press the Continuar button?
I thought about disabling JS, but the whole website relies on it to produces the requires documents.. wrong alternative.
So I thought about using the button properties to simulate the pressing of the button... just don't know if it's possible, or how I could do this.
Another option was blocking only the JS that disables the button maybe mapping where the command comes from using the inspect element and network tools...
So is there any way to achieve this?
ps.: I can't give the URL because it requires my login data.
Ok, so you can't directly do this through normal means. Selenium WebDriver is made to simulate real use of a browser. It may be possible however to use the execute_script function. (Java Selenium has a built in JavascriptExecutor class, I assume this is python's version.) The execute_script function allows Selenium to perform tasks that a human interacting with a browser can't do.
driver.execute_script("document.getElementById('buttonid').click()")
Or something along those lines should work. Hope that helps you out.
If you don't get any solution with selenium and javascript, you can use Sikuli concept. To click that element, take the image of the 'Continuar' button and save it in resources folder.
String elementImg=Path of the Image;
screen.click(elementImg);
I could bypass this using driver.execute_script("document.getElementById('txtValor4').value = 123.45"), to pass the values into the textbox, so the button didn't got disabled and I could press the Continue button.
Even bypassing this, the result wasn't the expected! The value that I entered was supposed to be corrected by some sort of interest. But bypassing this, the value isn't corrected.
Today the user that asked the program told me that everytime I change the value inside this textbox, I must press the Calculate button.
So, instead of inefficiently bypassing this disable method, I could solve my problem using:
b = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#id="txtValor4"]')
b.clear()
b.send_keys('123.45')
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#id="btnCalcular4"]').click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#id="btnContinuar4"]').click()
This way the tax value is corrected by interest and the website generate the .pdf with the exact value that I was expecting.
Many thanks for everyone that put some time and effort trying to help me.