How to find search area using selenium in python-CodePudding

I have this html:

<input _wad-f341 type="text" autocomplete="off" kkwdnkwn class="classname" placeholder="Search  here" id="ppui-search-0-input">

Using developer tools I am getting the xpath and I am using below code to check if the search area is loaded or not.

WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='ppui-search-0-input']")))

I am getting timeout as element was not found. Can anyone please help me? Is there any other way apart from id like using the placeholder desription?

CodePudding user response：

Ideally to locate a clickable element instead of presence_of_element_located() you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.classname[placeholder='Search  here'][id^='ppui-search']")))

Using XPATH:

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@class='classname' and @placeholder='Search  here'][starts-with(@id, 'ppui-search')]")))

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