Not able to insert text in textbox using Selenium (using firefox)

Question

I'm trying to insert text into a text box. When I inspect the textbox I found out that their are no identifiers for the text box so I used the xpath.

On inspecting the textbox

textbox = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("/html/body/main/article/div/div/div[3]/div/div[1]/div/div/form/div[1]/div/div/div/div[1]/textarea")
textbox.click()
textbox.send_keys("convert")

But it throws an error

"AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'click'".

I tried to find out where the text gets written and it is written in Code-line class. Code gets written here

I don't understand what's actually going on here because I have not seen any textbox which don't have any identifier.

How can I identify the textbox and insert text into it?

NarendraR · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-06 19:54:01Z

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You should use driver.find_element_by_xpath instead of driver.find_elements_by_xpath

driver.find_element_by_xpath returns single webelement so you can perform the action like click or sendkeys

driver.find_elements_by_xpath returns list of webelement So you need to iterate the list to extract the webelement one by one

answered Oct 6, 2018 at 19:54

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Sachin Sardiwal Over a year ago

When I do that It throws another exception. selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: Element <textarea> could not be scrolled into view

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