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Dimple Mathew
Dimple Mathew

Reputation: 49

Unable to pass text to a text box

Follwing is the HTML code: 

<div class="search-nav">
    <div class="field">
        <input id="search" type="text" class="input-data" 
                placeholder="Enter Claim or Payment Number..." 
                name="QuickSearch">
        </input>
    </div>
    <button class="search-button" data-ng-click="performSearch($event)"> 
    <i class="search icon"></i></button>
</div>

Python selenium code:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@class='field' and @id='search']"))).send_keys("12343545")

Upvotes: 0

Views: 83

Answers (4)

Ramdeep Singh
Ramdeep Singh

Reputation: 1

Currently your Xpath is referring to nothing as there is no such Web Element with id and class you are referring to.

'AND' can only be used in xpath on two attributes present in same tag. Eg: //input[@id='search' AND name='QuickSearch']

So, Update your xpath as:

//input[@id='search'] OR //input[@id='search' AND @name='QuickSearch']

Upvotes: 0

cruisepandey
cruisepandey

Reputation: 29362

If the input field is in iframe then you have to switch control of webdriver to that particular iframe for performing any operations inside it :

Code 

driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_id("payspan-health"))  
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, 'search')))
driver.find_element_by_id('search').send_keys("12343545")

#To switch back to the main window, you can use
driver.switch_to.default_content()

Upvotes: 0

iamsankalp89
iamsankalp89

Reputation: 4739

I thinks there is a frame there, you first swithc to frame then locate element

//Switch to frame    
driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_id("Id of your Frame")) 

waitElem = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
element = waitElem .until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, 'search'))) 

element.send_keys("323232")

Please place your frame locator in place of "Id of your Frame"

Upvotes: 1

Anand
Anand

Reputation: 1939

The reason why you cannot pass text is because you are looking for an element where class = 'field' and id = 'search'. With this, you are referring to 2 different element. class = 'field' is a <div> and and id = 'search' is an <input>

What you want to do is, send text to the input only. Now if you want to send it to this specific input under the div with class = 'field' try the following:

//div[@class='field']/input[@id='search']"))).send_keys("12343545")

Or if this is the only input field with id "search".

//input[@id='search' and @class='input-data']

Upvotes: 0

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