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Jack Gruber
Jack Gruber

Reputation: 163

Can't type in textbox in selenium can only select it. There is no textarea element

Facebook handles posting to a page you are the admin of differently then they do a personal page or a group you aren't and admin of (where there is a text area). I can select the text box which I think Facebook treats as a button but I can't send text to it. I receive this error when I try to: "selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot focus element"

driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/libertyempireband/")
    sleep(8)
    post_box=driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="rc.u_0_22"]/div/div[1]/div/div[2]/div/div[1]')
    #selects text box which I think is a button
    post_box.click()
    sleep(5)
    poster_box=driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="rc.u_0_22"]')
    #attempts to type in textbox, but recieve a "can't focus element" error
    poster_box.send_keys("hey")

Upvotes: 0

Views: 741

Answers (1)

Jack Gruber
Jack Gruber

Reputation: 163

I fixed it! The post_box Variable (the one I had to send text to) after clicking the first element labeled(post_box). This will help anyone trying to automate their group posts!

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@contenteditable='true']")

Hope this helps someone!

Upvotes: 2

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