I need to find the webelements like id="rcmrowgeneral".
A standard driver.find_element_by_id() is not working.
It's like they are inside another HTML page.
How can I find them with selenium to interact with them?
You can do this by following the selenium syntax which states if you want to find a specific tag inside an iframe you have to switch to that iframe first and then you can use selenium query to find it. Since you've not posted any code over here i assume you've background knowledge of handling automation processes. You can do this task by following this naming convention:
driver.switchTo().frame("id or name of the element")
driver.find_element_by_id("your id here")
Your element is inside of an iframe. First you need to switch to the iframe and then it is a good practice to wait for the element to be visible/clickable before interacting with it.
driver.switch_to().frame(driver.find_element_by_id("TiscaliWebmailFrame"))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(expected_conditions.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "rcmrowgeneral"))).click()
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I am trying to click the search button in this link here
I would like to click the search button and then download all URL's on the next page but currently it is finding monthly list
The link below takes you to a screenshot of my code where it outputs the monthly list button instead of searcj/
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You can use the .click() method to click an element object, and the .find_element_by_xpath() method to find the element. I've located that the element's full XPATH is /html/body/div/div/div[3]/div[3]/div/form/fieldset/div[5]/input[2].
You can implement all the pieces together like so:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div/div/div[3]/div[3]/div/form/fieldset/div[5]/input[2]").click()
if you are starting I recommend you using some extension to help you find the xPath of the elements.
I used Xpath Helper from Chrome, but you can use any other.
The Xpath of the Search button is:
/html[#class='js']/body/div[#id='idox']/div[#id='pa']/div[#class='container'][2]/div[#class='content']/div[#class='tabcontainer']/form[#id='weeklyListForm']/fieldset/div[#class='buttons']/input[#class='button primary']
After you have the XPath you can use it in the selenium driver to find the elements.
This can be enough, but I recommend you to learn in depth how this works to know exactly what it is doing.
I am attempting to scrape the Census website for ACS data. I have scripted the whole processes using Selenium except the very last click. I am using Python. I need to click a download button that is in a window that pops when the data is zipped and ready, but I can't seem to identify this button. It also seems that the button might change names based on when it was last run, for example, yui-gen2, yui-gen3, etc so I am thinking I might need to account for this someone. Although I normally only see yui-gen2.
Also, the tag seems to be in a "span" which might be adding to my difficulty honing in on the button I need to click.
Please help if you can shed any light on this for me.
code snippet:
#Refine search results to get tables
driver.find_element_by_id("prodautocomplete").send_keys("S0101")
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element_by_id("prodsubmit").click()
driver.implicitly_wait(100)
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element_by_id("check_all_btn_above").click()
driver.implicitly_wait(100)
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element_by_id("dnld_btn_above").click()
driver.implicitly_wait(100)
driver.find_element_by_id("yui-gen0-button").click()
time.sleep(10)
driver.implicitly_wait(100)
driver.find_element_by_id("yui-gen2-button").click()
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Instead of using the element id, which as you pointed out varies, you can use XPath as Nogoseke mentioned or CSS Selector. Be careful to not make the XPath/selector too specific or reliant on changing values, in this case the element id. Rather than using the id in XPath, try expressing the XPath in terms of the DOM structure (tags):
//*/div/div/div/span/span/span/button[contains(text(),'Download')]
TIL you can validate your XPath by using the search function, rather than by running it in Selenium. I right-clicked the webpage, "inspect element", ctrl+f, and typed in the above XPath to validate that it is the Download button.
For posterity, if the above XPath is too specific, i.e. it is reliant on too many levels of the DOM structure, you can do something shorter, like
//*button[contains(text(),'Download')]
although, this may not be specific enough and may require an additional field, since there may be multiple buttons on the page with the 'Download' text.
Given the HTML you provided, you should be able to use
driver.find_element_by_id("yui-gen2-button")
I know you said you tried it but you didn't say if it works at all or what error message you are getting. If that never works, you likely have an IFRAME that you need to switch to.
If it works sometimes but not consistently due to changing ID, you can use something like
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[.='Download']")
On the code inspection view on Chrome you can right click on the item you want to find and copy the xpath. You can they find your element by xpath on Selenium.
There are two dropdown element code: one is standard option-select and the other is made of div, ul, li elements.
And somehow both are used to select a dropdown element via javascript...
Problem is selenium is not able to click the element and throws not visible exception.....
See the dropdown box here: [Its below "Top 5" tab]
http://www.oddsbox.com/baseball/mlb/record/section.odd
Following solutions don't help either:
Python Selenium: Find object attributes using xpath
selecting element in python selenium
Selenium nested li div menu select() or click() python
how to select custom dropdown list element from selenium
It would be nice if you'd post your code, so we can see a bit clearer what's happening.
Also admitted, I did not check all of your links to see everything that doesn't work. However my guess is this:
If you get an ElementNotVisible exception, then you should probably make your element visible before selecting it.
In this case I'd forget about the selecting commands and all and just :
- click on the element to open and reveal the menu and then
- click on the desired element inside that list.
Looks something like :
driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[#id='ctmSelectBox4_wrap']/button").click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[#id='ctmSelectBox4_wrap']/div/ol/li[6]/label/span").click()
I personally detest these ugly xpaths (especially for maintainability), and probably would change that somehow, but that's not the scope of this question.
Hope that helps!
I want to create a Selenium test to test our extensions with AOL mail. I managed to login to AOL and compose an email, but I also need to select elements inside the editor, which is inside an iframe. I checked and even when the editor is open the following test fails:
self.assertEqual(first=1, second=len(self.driver.find_elements_by_xpath(xpath="//iframe[#name='editor_body']//body[#contenteditable='true']")))
I get the error AssertionError: 1 != 0. How do I select the body of the iframe and other elements by Xpath (or in any other way with Selenium)?
You cannot traverse through <iframe>'s until switching to them. Your xPath,
//iframe[#name='editor_body']//body[#contenteditable='true']
will not work because the <body> tag is within an iFrame, which is not in the current context. you need to switch to it first:
driver.switch_to.frame('editor_body')...
In case you are facing issues during Selenium automation testing here is some info that solved my problem:
Selenium by default has access to the parent browser driver. In order to access inside a frame, the driver's focus has to shift from the main browser window to the iframe(frame).
Therefore, if you happen to have to do assertions inside an iframe and then go back to the main window to do other interactions you will need to change the Driver's focus based on your target.
Read more at: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/how-do-i-select-elements-inside-an-iframe-with-xpath
I'm writing test scripts for a web page in python using Selenium's remote control interface.
I'm writing it like this:
elem = browser.find_element_by_link_text("foo")
elem.click()
elem = browser.find_element_by_name("goo")
elem.send_keys("asdf")
elem = browser.find_element_by_link_text("foo2")
elem.click()
It then needs to select an item in a list. The list becomes visible when the mouse hovers over it, but selenium cannot find the element if it's hidden. The list also shows options based on who is logged in. The list is implemented in CSS, so trying to run it in javascript and using gettext() does not work.
I've tried searching for the link based on name, class and xpath, but it always reports that it is not visible I've verified from browser.page_source() that the link is in the source code, so it's reading the correct page.
How do I select the link inside the list? Any help is appreciated.
Selenium and :hover css suggests that this can't be done using the Selenium RC interface, but instead must be done using the WebDriver API
Try move_to_element(). Check out the API http://readthedocs.org/docs/selenium-python/en/latest/api.html