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kpython
kpython

Reputation: 397

Access nested elements in HTML using Python Selenium

I am trying to automate logging into a website (http://www.phptravels.net/) using Selenium - Python on Chrome. This is an open website used for automation tutorials.

I am trying to click an element to open a drop-down (My Account button at the top navbar) which will then give me the option to login and redirect me to the login page.

The HTML is nested with many div and ul/li tags.

I have tried various lines of code but haven't been able to make much progress.

 driver.find_element_by_id('li_myaccount').click()
 driver.find_element_by_link_text(' Login').click()
 driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='li_myaccount']/ul/li[1]/a").click()

These are some of the examples that I tried out. All of them failed with the error "element not visible".

How do I find those elements? Even the xpath function is throwing this error. I have not added any time wait in my code.

Any ideas how to proceed further?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3380

Answers (2)

thebadguy
thebadguy

Reputation: 2140

Hope this code will help:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

url="http://www.phptravels.net/"
d=webdriver.Chrome()
d.maximize_window()

d.get(url)


d.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT,'MY ACCOUNT').click()


d.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT,'Login').click()

d.find_element(By.NAME,"username").send_keys("Test")
d.find_element(By.NAME,"password").send_keys("Test")
d.find_element(By.XPATH,"//button[text()='Login']").click()

Use the best available locator on your html page, so that you need not to create xpath of css for simple operations

Upvotes: 1

Andrew Guy
Andrew Guy

Reputation: 10008

You may be having issues with the page not being loaded when you try and find the element of interest. You should use the WebDriverWait class to wait until a given element is present in the page.

Adapted from the docs:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

# Set up your driver here....

try:
    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'li_myaccount'))
    )
    element.click()
except:
    #Handle any exceptions here
finally:
    driver.quit()

Upvotes: 1

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