Setting the value of an <input> dropdown in Selenium with Python - python

I have a HTML page containing a form with an tag. I want to set the value of the drop down in this tag using Selenium.
This is how I retrieve the input element:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[2]/div/div/form/div/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div/div[1]/input")
I tried to set the value using select_month.send_keys("09") but this is not accepted by the web page when I try to submit the form so I need to find another method.
EDIT: Here is the HTML of the form, I have ensured that it is the right element in my x-path:
<input autocomplete="off" tabindex="-1" class="ui-select-search ui-select-toggle ng-pristine ng-valid ng-touched" ng-click="$select.toggle($event)" placeholder="Select month" ng-model="$select.search" ng-hide="!$select.searchEnabled || ($select.selected && !$select.open)" ng-disabled="$select.disabled" type="text">

After messing around a bit and incorporating the better practice presented by alecxe, this solution worked...
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[#placeholder='Select month']").click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(), '09')]").click()

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I was wondering how to use python to change an element in a page's HTML code:
Specifically, from:
<input _ngcontent-mcp-c552="" type="number" name="bpm" placeholder="0" min="0" max="999" step="0.01" class="ng-valid ng-dirty ng-touched">
to
<input _ngcontent-mcp-c552="" type="number" name="bpm" placeholder="0" min="0" max="999" step="1" class="ng-valid ng-dirty ng-touched">
(Changing the step-size value)
The HTML I'm attempting to edit would not be of my own HTML file, but a public website. As such, the change would only be temporary; but I'm okay with that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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To change the attribute from:
step="0.01"
to:
step="1"
you need to use setAttribute() as follows:
my_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[#class='ng-valid ng-dirty ng-touched' and #name='bpm'][#type='number']")))
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How to check checkbox using Selenium in Python

I have a problem with this checkbox. I tried to click searching element with id, name, XPath, CSS Selector and contains text and still I could not click on this checkbox. Additionally, I've tried with another site with similar HTML code and on this site, it was enough to look for id and click. Any ideas?
<div class="agree-box-term">
<input tabindex="75" id="agree" name="agree" type="checkbox" value="1">
<label for="agree" class="checkbox-special">* Zapoznałam/em się z Regulaminem sklepu internetowego i akceptuję jego postanowienia.<br></label>
</div>
Here is my Python code https://codeshare.io/5zo0Jj
I have used javaScript Executor and it clicks on the element.However I have also checked webdriver click is not working.
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", driver.find_element_by_id("agree"))
I don't know why this is, but in my experience some boxes don't accept click but do accept a 'mousedown' trigger.
try:
driver.execute_script('$("div.agree-box-term input#agree").trigger("mousedown")')
This solution does rely on jquery being on the page, if it's not we can write it in javascript
r = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#id="form-order"]/div[2]/div[4]/label")
r.click()
Does this work for you? Sometimes it's just a question of selecting the right xpath, or adding the brackets after click.
Does your code contain nested html tags? For example:
<html>
<div>
<p> Some text </p>
<html>
That block can't be traversed!
</html>
</div>
</html>
Anything inside the second HTML tags can't be traversed/accessed. Try to see if that's the case.
In any other case the following code ran perfectly fine for your snippet:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#agree').click()

Python Selenium can't locate element

I have some troubles locating a username field on a webpage.
Using find_element_by_name/class prompts me with a 'no such element' error.
After a lot of fiddling, I still can not get this to work. Have not had this problem on any other webpages where I used the same method. Hope anyone can help me out!
<input type="text" class="_ph6vk _o716c" aria-describedby="" aria-label="Telefoonnummer, gebruikersnaam of e-mailadres" aria-required="true" autocapitalize="off" autocorrect="off" autocomplete="username" maxlength="30" name="username" placeholder="Telefoonnummer, gebruikersnaam of e-mailadres" value="">
The HTML above represents the element which I want to locate.
In case of slow page load/render, instruct the driver to wait for 5 seconds (for the element to load):
driver.implicitly_wait(5).
Explicitly getting the input:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[contains(#class, '_ph6vk')]")
Though the class name looks to be dynamically generated on each particular page load, in that case, you will have to count inputs on the page before wanted one:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[1]")
or write there a full absolute XPath.
Try the following:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input._ph6vk._o716c")
this won't work:
find_element_by_class("_ph6vk _o716c")
as they are two different classes.

Getting text from angular element with no text value

I've bumped into a text field in a simple table where the text I want to check/extract is not part of any value in the element.
Using Python and Selenium I was trying to get the value by using get_value, get_text or get_attribute but with no success. Everything returns
AttributeError: 'WebElement' object has no attribute 'get_text'
which is not surprising as there is no real value in the element. It's an AngularJS based website.
The element looks like this and the text inside is "France":
<span class="keyword-autocomplete-container" model="flavor.subregion" keyword-autocomplete="subregion" filter="{ancestorId: flavor.regionId || flavor.countryId}" with-aliases="true" replace-alias="true"> <input ng-model="localModel" ng-disabled="ngDisabled" mass-autocomplete-item="createOptions()" ng-keypress="onKeyPressed($event)" class="ng-pristine ng-valid ng-touched" autocomplete="off"></span>
with this children:
<input ng-model="localModel" ng-disabled="ngDisabled" mass- autocomplete-item="createOptions()" ng-keypress="onKeyPressed($event)" class="ng-pristine ng-valid ng-touched" autocomplete="off">
The selector I have pointed to that element works fine. I can type some text or click it with no issues. Anyone can help how to read a text from such element? Thank you.

Selenium to push button in form

Python: 3.4.1
Browser: Chrome
I'm trying to push a button which is located in a form using Selenium with Python. I'm fairly new to Selenium and HTML.
The HTML code is as follows:
<FORM id='QLf_437222' method='POST' action='xxxx'>
<script>document.write("<a href='javascript:void(0);' onclick='document.getElementById(\"QLf_437222\").submit();' title='xxx'>51530119</a>");</script>
<noscript><INPUT type='SUBMIT' value='51530119' title='xxx' name='xxxx'></noscript>
<INPUT type=hidden name="prodType" value="DDA"/>
<INPUT type=hidden name="BlitzToken" value="BlitzToken"/>
<INPUT type=hidden name="productInfo" value="40050951530119"/>
<INPUT type=hidden name="reDirectionURL" value="xxx"/>
</FORM>
I've been trying the following:
driver.execute("javascript:void(0)")
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="QLf_437104"]/a').click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="QLf_437104"]/a').submit()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#QLf_437104 > a").click()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#QLf_437104 > a").submit()
Python doesn't throw an exception, so it seems like I'm clicking something, but it doesn't do what I want.
In addition to this the webpage acts funny when the chrome driver is initialized from Selenium. When clicking the button in the initialized chrome driver, the webpage throws an error (888).
I'm not sure where to go from here. Might it be something with the hidden elements?
If I can provide additional information please let me know.
EDIT:
It looks like the form id changes sometimes.
What it sounds like you are trying to do, is to submit the form, right?
The <a> that you are pointing out is simply submitting that form. Since that is being injected via JavaScript, it's possible that it's not showing up when you try to click it. What i'd recommend, is doing:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("form[id^='QLf']").submit()
That will avoid the button, and submit the appropriate form.
In the above CSS selector, i also used [id^= this means, find a <form> with an ID attribute that starts with QLf, because it looks like the numbers after, are automatically generated.

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