Python and Selenium get value of specific html cell

Question

I would like to get the text of a cell in a table of a html with python and selenium, but I get this error:

Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"name","selector":"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ctl02_tblHistorico"}

The html:

<div id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ctl02_divTabelaHistorico">
    <br />
    <table id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ctl02_tblHistorico" class="tablefq" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
        <tr>
            <td id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ctl02_tdTitulo" class="tituloTV" height="20" colspan="6">XX</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td class="TDTVHeader" width="4%"><a id='aSinalMain' class='sinal hand' onclick='aSinalMain_onClick(this)'>[+]</a></td>
            <td class="TDTVHeader" colspan="1">XXXnbsp;</td>
            <td class="TDTVHeader" colspan="1">XXXbsp;</td>
            <td class="TDTVHeader" colspan="1">XXXsp;</td>
            <td class="TDTVHeader" colspan="1">XXX</td>
            <td class="TDTVHeader" colspan="1">XXX&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td class="TDFQ" colspan="1"><a id='aSinal' class='sinal hand'>[+]</a></td>
            <td class="TDFQ" colspan="1">XXX</td>
            <td class="TDFQ" colspan="1">XXX</td>
            <td class="TDFQ" colspan="1">XX</td>
            <td class="TDFQ" colspan="1">XX</td>
            <td class="TDFQ" colspan="1">XX</td>
        </tr>
        <tr style="display:none;">
            <td class="TDFQ historico" colspan="6"><div class=scroll>I WANT HERE HERE HERE</div></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td class="TDFQ" colspan="1"><a id='aSinal' class='sinal hand'>[+]</a></td>
            <td class="TDFQ" colspan="1">XXXp;</td>
            <td class="TDFQ" colspan="1">XXX&nbsp;</td>
            <td class="TDFQ" colspan="1">XXXT;</td>
            <td class="TDFQ" colspan="1">XXX</td>
            <td class="TDFQ" colspan="1">XXX&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    </div>

Python code:

text = driver.find_element_by_name('ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ctl02_tblHistorico')

Augusto Sisa · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-18 22:59:32Z

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According to your description, you are looking for "id" no for "name", so use the method:

table = driver.find_element_by_id('ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ctl02_tblHistorico')

This would give you an element with the entire table.

If you know something else about the cell that you want, you could find for that specific element.

https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/locating-elements.html

For example, to get the text that you marked in your post you can use this because there is only one tag with that class name:

div = driver.find_element_by_class_name('scroll')
text = div.text

edited Feb 18, 2019 at 22:59

answered Feb 18, 2019 at 22:46

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KunduK · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-19 15:03:39Z

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Please try the below code.Let me know if that helps.You need JavaScripts executor to get the text of hiddden field.

eletext=driver.execute_script("return arguments[0].innerHTML;",driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='scroll']"))
print(eletext)

Hope this help you.

edited Feb 19, 2019 at 15:03

answered Feb 18, 2019 at 22:47

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Douglas Over a year ago

The loop brings only the tags tr.. Do not bring the tag tr <tr style="display:none;"> <tr style="display:none;"> <td class="TDFQ historico" colspan="6"><div class=scroll>I WANT HERE HERE HERE</div></td>

KunduK Over a year ago

I have updated my answer to get the value You wanted.Please accept my answer if it helps.

Douglas Over a year ago

Thank you Kajal Kundu This code solved my problem...I was trying to get this text during a long time.Thank you

KunduK Over a year ago

Can you please accept my answer by click on accept button on my code message.

Yevgen · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-18 22:45:41Z

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What you want is to get the desired element by a CSS selector.

This is the method you want to use.

The right CSS selector expression would be the following string.

#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ctl02_tblHistorico.TDFQ historico

answered Feb 18, 2019 at 22:45

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