I need advice on how to call send_keys for user input. If I assign a variable for the line self.browser.find_elements_by_id ("Login1_UserName") and then send it to send_keys, the solution does not work. What am I doing wrong?
def login(Self):
# login to the app
username = self.browser.find_elements_by_id ("Login1_UserName")
username.send_keys ("userone")
find_elements_* would return a List and you can't invoke send_keys() on a List. So you need to replace find_elements_* with find_element_* and you can use the following Locator Strategies:
def login(Self):
# login to the app
self.browser.find_element_by_id("Login1_UserName").send_keys("userone")
As per best practices, while invoking send_keys() you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following solutions:
Using ID:
WebDriverWait(self.browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "Login1_UserName"))).send_keys("Tomasito")
Using CSS_SELECTOR:
WebDriverWait(self.browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#Login1_UserName"))).send_keys("Tomasito")
Using XPATH:
WebDriverWait(self.browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='Login1_UserName']"))).send_keys("Tomasito")
Note : You have to add the following imports :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
def testTitle(self): self.browser.get("http://localhost/test") self.assertEqual("Login",self.browser.title) WebDriverWait(self.browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "Login1_UserName"))).send_keys( "Tomasito") def Login(self): # login to app self.browser.find_element_by_id("Login1_UserName").send_keys("userone") It only works if this line is in the function testTitle and not in my newly created Login function for separate logging.This is because you have used find_elements_by_id("Login1_UserName") it will return list NOT the element.You should use find_element_by_id("Login1_UserName")
def login(Self):
# login to the app
username = self.browser.find_element_by_id("Login1_UserName")
username.send_keys("userone")
Try this code see if this work.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
driver=webdriver.Chrome("path of chrome driver")
driver.get('url')
username=WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID,'Login1_UserName')))
username.send_keys("userone")
WebDriverWait