I am trying to locate a text box to enter a text in it but couldn't because of the error 'no such element: Unable to locate element'
Here is the HTML of the page:
<form id="aaaSub" name="aaaSub" method="post" action="/ProvGwAaaGui/faces/jsp/dspAAABySearch.jsp" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
<input type="hidden" name="aaaSub" value="aaaSub" />
<table id="aaaSub:msg1" style="height:30px; margin-left:20px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table id="aaaSub:heading" style="height:60px; margin-left:20px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><table >
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Display Single Umc AAA Subscriber</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table border="1" style="margin-left:20px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><table style="margin:10px 10px 10px 10px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><table style="width:300px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><span id="aaaSub:j_id_jsp_2095096634_11" >Identifier</span></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td><input id="aaaSub:identifier" name="aaaSub:identifier" type="text" value="" maxlength="32" size="30" onkeyup="disableOtherLink('aaaSub:identifier')" onchange="disableOtherLink('aaaSub:identifier')" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><table style="width:300px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><span id="aaaSub:j_id_jsp_2095096634_15" >cn alias</span></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td><input id="aaaSub:cn" name="aaaSub:cn" type="text" value="" maxlength="32" size="30" onkeyup="disableOtherLink('aaaSub:cn')" onchange="disableOtherLink('aaaSub:cn')" /></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table id="aaaSub:empty" style="height:130px; margin-left:20px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><span id="aaaSub:j_id_jsp_2095096634_18"> </span></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table id="aaaSub:buttons" style="width:200px;margin-left:20px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><input type="submit" name="aaaSub:j_id_jsp_2095096634_20" value="Display" style="height:25px;margin-left:5px;width:100px" onclick="return(mandatoryGeneralCheck())" /></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>The requested box is here:
<td><input id="aaaSub:identifier" name="aaaSub:identifier" type="text" value="" maxlength="32" size="30" onkeyup="disableOtherLink('aaaSub:identifier')" onchange="disableOtherLink('aaaSub:identifier')" /></td>
I tried the following code
web.implicitly_wait(30)
web.find_element(By.XPATH,'//*[@id="aaaSub:identifier"]').send_keys('text')
CodePudding user response：
You were using invalid xpath locator.
Please use //input[@id="aaaSub:identifier"]
CodePudding user response：
The desired element is a dynamic element, so ideally to send a character sequence to the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:
Using CSS_SELECTOR:
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[id='aaaSub:identifier'][name='aaaSub:identifier'][onchange*='aaaSub:identifier']"))).send_keys("text")Using XPATH:
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@id='aaaSub:identifier' and @name='aaaSub:identifier'][contains(@onchange, 'aaaSub:identifier')]"))).send_keys("text")Note: You have to add the following imports :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
References
You can find a couple of relevant discussions on NoSuchElementException in: