Selenium check for text otherwise prompts the next task-CodePudding

On python 3.9 and selenium 4.0.0

So I'm currently trying to go to a website and check if there is text there like "Please enter your username" and if that text is not there, it'll open up a different tab and go to a different website.

This is my current code:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())  # opens a new chrome window
driver.maximize_window()  # maximizes the window
driver.get('website.com')

if driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="outside"]/div[4]/div/p [contains(text(), "Please enter your Username and Password to continue.")]').click() is True:
    loginBox = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//input[@id="username"]') 
    loginBox.send_keys("username") 

    password = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//input[@type = "password"]')
    password.send_keys("password")
else:
    pass

driver.execute_script("window.open('about:blank','secondtab');")
driver.switch_to.window("secondtab")
driver.get("secondwebsite.com")
...

It currently just opens the website and sits there while not checking for any of the conditions I wanted.

CodePudding user response：

.click returns type is void, so it would not make any sense to have it returned as true.

Also, if you use find_elements (Plural), you would have a list.

Please use the below code :

try:
    if len(driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//*[@id='outside']/div[4]/div/p [contains(text(), 'Please enter your Username and Password to continue.')]")) > 0:
        print("This means that the above xpath is valid and have a node in HTMLDOM")
        WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='outside']/div[4]/div/p [contains(text(), 'Please enter your Username and Password to continue.')]"))).click()
        loginBox = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//input[@id="username"]')
        loginBox.send_keys("username")

        password = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//input[@type = "password"]')
        password.send_keys("password")
    else:
        print("Please check this xpath, //*[@id='outside']/div[4]/div/p [contains(text(), 'Please enter your Username and Password to continue.')]")
        pass
except:
    pass

driver.execute_script("window.open('about:blank','secondtab');")
driver.switch_to.window("secondtab")
driver.get("secondwebsite.com")

I have induced Explicit waits (WebDriverWait), Please use below imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

Please check in the dev tools (Google chrome) if we have unique entry in HTML DOM or not.

xpath that you should check :

//*[@id='outside']/div[4]/div/p [contains(text(), 'Please enter your Username and Password to continue.')]

Steps to check:

Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL F -> then paste the xpath and see, if your desired element is getting highlighted with 1/1 matching node.

CodePudding user response：

You are looking for some element containing Please enter your Username and Password to continue. text immediately after opening that page with driver.get('website.com').
This may cause that you checking this element content while it is still not fully rendered.
Also,

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="outside"]/div[4]/div/p [contains(text(), "Please enter your Username and Password to continue.")]').click()

Doesn't return Boolean, it returns nothing.
So it is never True
That's why you immediately passed to the else where you doing nothing, just pass