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Rastko Jović
Rastko Jović

Reputation: 139

Getting active element in Selenium Python

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
elem = driver.switch_to_active_element()
elem.send_keys('a')

I want to send keys to a currently active element on the page, but I don't know how to get the active element from driver. I need it because there is no name, id, class etc. on that element. I've found code for Java, something for Python(written above), but there's no result.

Here's the page, and the object "" with no attrs. How to select it? 

<div action-name="menu-holder" class="uiMenuButtonSelectionHolder">
    <a href="javascript:;" class="choiceMenuClose" action-name="choice-menu-close"></a>
    <div style="top: 0px; left: 0px;" class="uiInlineBlock uiMenuHolder">
    <div>
       <input type="text">
    </div>

Upvotes: 3

Views: 31971

Answers (2)

HenryM
HenryM

Reputation: 5793

I've been struggling with this myself until I came across this link.

switch_to_active_element() has been deprecated and we should be using switch_to.active_element

So, it should be:

elem = driver.switch_to.active_element

Upvotes: 20

Obsidian
Obsidian

Reputation: 515

You can identify the input tag through a css selector like below. Take a look at this to get a better understanding about selectors

elem = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('div.uiInlineBlock input')
elem.send_keys('a')

The selector can be read as find the input tag, descendant to the div with class name _uiInlineBlock_.

Hopefully, you don't have other divs with the same class, in which case you'll have to use find_elements_by_css_selector and from the list of elements returned, pick the element that you want to send_keys to.

Edit:

If the element is not visible, you can either go through the flow of making it visible or you can execute javascript to find and set the value 

driver.execute_script("document.querySelector('div.uiInlineBlock input').setAttribute('value', 'a');")

Upvotes: 0

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