Selenium find_elements function return Object (Selenium 4)-CodePudding

thank you for helping me.

I usually used Selenium 2,3 but today I try using Selenium 4 to use new features Relative Locators . I do a simple find expression but it always return weird Object like below

> print(driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, "a"))
{'ELEMENT': '0.4746792741017858-194'}

Or I find multiples

> print(driver.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "a"))
[{'ELEMENT': '0.4746792741017858-178'}, {'ELEMENT': '0.4746792741017858-179'}]

I expect it return WebDriver Object, but it doesn't Here is image of code and print statements. Does anyone know this thing? Thank you so much!

CodePudding user response：

I ran your code

print(driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, "a"))

output on selenium 3:

<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="251a91865546a6c66596a267e20688d1", element="a36e87f3-bf6a-475c-82e4-07e4febe0dc5")>

output on selenium 4:

[[ChromeDriver: chrome on WINDOWS (cbd87e312a3869b75a472d747371fd57)] -> tag name: a]

and your expectation :

I expect it return WebDriver Object, but it doesn't

Note that driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, "a") will always return a web element. It won't return a webdriver object.

on a web element you can perform .text, .send_keys, .click etc method

Update:

driver.get('https://www.google.com/')
driver.find_element(By.NAME, 'q').send_keys('etc')

CodePudding user response：

I finally found the asnwer for this issue. This is my set up:

chromedriver: 71.0.3578.80
chromebrowser: 99.0
selenium: 4

Basically, I'm using Selenium 4 which only support for above chromedriver: > 92. But my chromedriver v.71 -> outdate.

So that's why it's not compatible. So please check your chromedriver version if you choose selenium 4.