Python - selenium - AngularJS drop downs, how to click them?

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I am scraping his website. To create an account. Below is the url

https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25222&siteid=5011&noback=1&fromSM=true#CreateAccount

After going to this site, click on "Dont have an account yet?" and click "Agree" on the next page.

There I have security questions to fill. For that I wrote the below script.

def findxpath_AddKey(xpath, key1, id, key2):
    element = browser.find_element_by_xpath(xpath)
    element.click()
    browser.execute_script("arguments[0].setAttribute('aria-activedescendant',{})".format(key1),element)
    span = browser.find_element_by_id(id)
    browser.execute_script("arguments[0].innerText = {}".format(key2), span)
    browser.execute_script("arguments[0].setAttribute('class',\"ui-selectmenu-button ui-button ui-widget ui-selectmenu-button-closed ui-corner-all\")",element)

findxpath_AddKey('//*[@id="selectSecurityQuestion1-button"]',"'ui-id-3'", 'selectSecurityQuestion1-button_text', "'Where is your favorite vacation spot?'")

Above process is repeated for other security questions and click "continue". But the website is throwing errors, saying that to fill security questions.

AmagicalFishy · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-12 23:52:47Z

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I'm not sure if this will solve your problem or not, but I do know that, sometimes, manually editing the inner text of a form will not register as a form being filled out—and that's what I believe you're doing by using setAttribute.

Instead of setAttribute, try using the driver's send_keys method. It would look something like this:

form_field = browser.find_element_by_id('ID_OF_FORM_FIELD')
form_field.send_keys('Answer to security question')

You don't have to use the id to find the field, either. You could use find_element_by_xpath or whatever other identifier you can think of.

answered Feb 12, 2019 at 23:52

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