When visiting the website this element contains the date: 20210930

<input placeholder="yyyymmdd" ng-class="{'mark-red': relatedDocument.documentDate == null}" title="yyyyMMdd" data-autoclose="1" bs-datepicker="" data-date-format="yyyyMMdd" data-date-type="number" class="form-control importInputHalf ng-valid ng-valid-date ng-valid-min ng-valid-max ng-touched ng-dirty ng-valid-parse" data-max-date="today" ng-model="relatedDocument.documentDate" ng-disabled="editDisabled || relatedDocument.documentDuplicated || (isDocumentAlreadyUsed(relatedDocument) &amp;&amp; relatedDocument.rex) || relatedDocument.correctionCloneLocked" ng-change="documentChanged(relatedDocument,'documentDate')">

But when I try to access this information through Selenium with the following code it returns empty:

date = self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "// *[@id='out']/table/tbody/tr[3]/td[5]/input").text

Is there a way to access this data?

CodePudding user response：

The text 20210930 isn't the innerText but the value within. So text attribute won't be able to retrive it. You need to use get_attribute("value") inducing WebDriverWait as follows:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  print(WebDriverWait(self.driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[placeholder='yyyymmdd'][title='yyyyMMdd'][ata-date-format='yyyyMMdd'][data-max-date='today']"))).get_attribute("value"))
  

• Using XPATH:

  print(WebDriverWait(self.driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//input[@placeholder='yyyymmdd' and @title='yyyyMMdd'][@data-date-format='yyyyMMdd' and @data-max-date='today']"))).get_attribute("value"))
  

• 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