Problem with getting a value from a html table-CodePudding

i have a problem with getting a value from a html table.

This is the code of the part im trying to acces

<div class="cell el-tooltip" style="width: 108px;"> 1.07 </div>

Im trying to acces the value with xpath .

wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located(By.XPATH, "//*[@id='pane-bus-device-inverter']/div/div[1]/div/div/section/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[3]/table/tbody/tr/td[7]/div"))

I end up getting a error: "TypeError: init() takes 2 positional arguments but 3 were given"

CodePudding user response：

Can I suggest that maybe you are using classes to identify a specific element, but there may be many elements using that class?

CodePudding user response：

This error

TypeError: init() takes 2 positional arguments but 3 were given"

is cause you are missing parenthesis ().

Instead of :

wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located(By.XPATH, "//*[@id='pane-bus-device-inverter']/div/div[1]/div/div/section/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[3]/table/tbody/tr/td[7]/div"))

do this :

wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='pane-bus-device-inverter']/div/div[1]/div/div/section/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[3]/table/tbody/tr/td[7]/div")))

Also this xpath

//*[@id='pane-bus-device-inverter']/div/div[1]/div/div/section/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[3]/table/tbody/tr/td[7]/div

is absolute xpath, please use relative xpath or switch to css.

Relative xpath you can try :

//div[contains(@class,'is-scrolling-none')]//descendant::tbody/tr[1]/td[7]/div[contains(@class,'cell el-tooltip')]

//div[contains(@class,'is-scrolling-none')]//descendant::tbody/descendant::div[contains(@class,'cell el-tooltip')]

//div[contains(@class,'is-scrolling-none')]//descendant::div[contains(@class,'cell el-tooltip')]

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

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.

You can use CSS selector as well. But I need to have page url to give you more robust locator.