I am trying to select a value from a dropdown in a web page using Seleinum with VBA binding, but I am unable to do it.
This is the code I tried bot.FindElementById("holder-samples-date-type-inputEl").SendKeys "XX"
I am not getting any error the code runs it click the dropdown button and the list is shown but no value is selected and the dropdown does not change.
I have the same project with VBA and IE (DOM elements) and this code works fine in Internet explorer IE.document.getElementById("holder-samples-date-type-inputEl").Value = "XX"
The interesting part of this dropdown is after clicking the dropdown icon i am unable to inspect the list (like do a right click on the list) and if i click anywhere else in the web page or change the window the dropdown list get closed (like it retracts) note: this is not a mouseover drop down. Also, when the list is open there seems to be additional code added (I have pasted a snippet of the code)
Below is the HTML from the web page.
<div id="holder-samples-date-type-triggerWrap" data-ref="triggerWrap" class="x-form-trigger-wrap x-form-trigger-wrap-default x-form-trigger-wrap-invalid">
<div id="holder-samples-date-type-inputWrap" data-ref="inputWrap" class="x-form-text-wrap x-form-text-wrap-default x-form-text-wrap-invalid"><input id="holder-samples-date-type-inputEl" data-ref="inputEl" type="text" role="combobox" aria-label="Chargebacks: Date Type" aria-readonly="false" aria-required="true" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false" aria-autocomplete="list" size="1" name="P_samples_Date_Type" readonly="readonly" class="x-form-field x-form-required-field x-form-text x-form-text-default x-form-invalid-field x-form-invalid-field-default" autocomplete="off" aria-labelledby="holder-samples-date-type-labelEl" aria-owns="boundlist-1206" componentid="holder-samples-date-type" data-errorqtip="<ul class="x-list-plain"><div>Date Type</div><li>This field is required</li></ul>" aria-invalid="true"></div>
<div id="holder-samples-date-type-trigger-picker"
aria-label="Trigger" class="x-form-trigger x-form-trigger-default x-form-arrow-trigger x-form-arrow-trigger-default "><img class="combo-trigger-placeholder" src="https://www.sample.net/clr/images/16x16_transparent.png" title="combobox trigger" alt="combobox trigger"></div>
</div>
Below is the image
Since I am unable to do a right click on the dropdown option. I did a 'Find" option in the developer window and below is the webpage code for the dropdown item and it is inside a iframe
<div id="boundlist-1206-listWrap" data-ref="listWrap" role="presentation" class="x-boundlist-list-ct x-unselectable" style="overflow: auto; height: auto;">
<ul id="boundlist-1206-listEl" data-ref="listEl" class="x-list-plain">
<div data-qtip="" class="x-boundlist-item x-boundlist-item-over" tabindex="-1" data-recordindex="0" data-recordid="31" data-boundview="boundlist-1206" id="ext-932" role="option" aria-selected="false">Received Date</div>
<div data-qtip="" class="x-boundlist-item" tabindex="-1" data-recordindex="1" data-recordid="32" data-boundview="boundlist-1206" id="ext-933" role="option" aria-selected="false">Status Date</div>
<div data-qtip="" class="x-boundlist-item" tabindex="-1" data-recordindex="2" data-recordid="33" data-boundview="boundlist-1206" id="ext-934" role="option" aria-selected="false">Due Date</div>
<div data-qtip="" class="x-boundlist-item" tabindex="-1" data-recordindex="3" data-recordid="34" data-boundview="boundlist-1206" id="ext-935" role="option" aria-selected="false">Disposition Date</div>
</ul>
</div>
Some points that may help:
1) If inside an iframe you will need to switch to the iframe first
bot.SwitchToFrame(identifier)
Identifier can be the element selected by iframe name/id etc.
2) You can try click and hold on the input text box before using your SendKeys
bot.FindElementById("x").ClickAndHold
'sendkeys line here
3) You can try setting the value with javascript
bot.ExecuteScript "document.getElementById('x').value = 'xx';"
Related
I have the following portion of html code in a web page
<div class="action">
<div class="double-button">
<button class="widget-button" title="2 people liked this post">2</button>
<button class="widget-button like" title="like this post">
<svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-d-unliked svg-icon svg-node" aria-hidden="true">
<use xlink:href="#far-heart"></use>
</svg>
</button>
</div>
</div>
After hovering over the first button the class name change and the code transform to
<div class="action">
<div class="double-button">
<button class="widget-button d-hover" title="2 people liked this post">2</button>
<button class="widget-button like" title="like this post">
<svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-d-unliked svg-icon svg-node" aria-hidden="true">
<use xlink:href="#far-heart"></use>
</svg>
</button>
</div>
</div>
After clicking over the first button a new div appear that contains people who like the post
<div class="action">
<div class="double-button">
<button class="widget-button d-hover" title="2 people liked this post">2</button>
<button class="widget-button like" title="like this post">
<svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-d-unliked svg-icon svg-node" aria-hidden="true">
<use xlink:href="#far-heart"></use>
</svg>
</button>
</div>
<div class="likes">
<a class="trigger-user" href="/USER1" name="USER1">USER1</a>
<a class="trigger-user" href="/USER2" name="USER2">USER2</a>
</div>
</div>
My objective is to select all those users using selenium and python3 so I tried the following code inspired from other stack overflow questions like link1 and link2
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='./chromedriver_83') #this works fine
driver.get("link_to_the_page") #also I get the link and all contents without problems
likes_button=driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//button[#class='widget-button']") # works fine too
print(likes_button[0].text) # This gives '2', it the right value
hover = ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(likes_button[0]) #select only the first element in the page for testing
hover.perform() # I think the hover does not work even if this is the right way
likes_button_hover=driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//button[#class='widget-button d-hover']") # now select the hovered button to be clicked, since I hovered only one button in the whole page the result shoud be one
print(len(likes_button_hover)) # this gives 0 while it should give 1
likes_button_hover[0].click() # this throw an error
I get the following error which means the button did not change the class ( the hover did not work)
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: element click intercepted: Element <button class="widget-button" title="2 people liked this post">2</button> is not clickable at point (537, 17). Other element would receive the click: <span>...</span>
(Session info: chrome=83.0.4103.116)
I tried to get into the first button in many means using for example
driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("[title*='people liked this post']")
but in vain, I think the problem occurs in the hover but I can not see why, and of course I can not get the button and click it without hovering it first.
What Am I doing wrong?
I can see two solution here.
1: As button (One you need to click to see all users) is always there but only class is changing. So you can do a direct click without hovering on it.
likes_button=driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//button[contains(#title,'people liked this post')]") # Used contains as number of people liked might change
print(likes_button[0].text) # This gives '2', it the right value
likes_button[0].click() # If not working try javaScript : driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", likes_button[0])
2: If you really want to click only after hovering, i guess you might need to to pause method of Actionchain class. As java script might take some time to load. In your case it is trying to find button with class widget-button d-hover immediately after hovering the mouse.
likes_button=driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//button[#class='widget-button']")
print(likes_button[0].text)
ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(likes_button[0]).pause(1).perform()
likes_button_hover=driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//button[#class='widget-button d-hover']")
print(len(likes_button_hover))
likes_button_hover[0].click()
I try to automate some manual processes by using VBA automation. One of them is to click on a element that has an empty content and at the moment I am not able to figure out how to deal with it
The HTML code that I am trying to click on:
<div id="searchcombobox-1077-triggerWrap" data-ref="triggerWrap" class="x-form-trigger-wrap x-form-trigger-wrap-toolbar">
<div id="searchcombobox-1077-inputWrap" data-ref="inputWrap" class="x-form-text-wrap x-form-text-wrap-toolbar">
<input id="searchcombobox-1077-inputEl" data-ref="inputEl" type="text" role="combobox" size="1" name="searchcombobox-1077-inputEl" placeholder="Account Number" tabindex="-1" class="x-form-field x-form-text x-form-text-toolbar " autocomplete="off" componentid="searchcombobox-1077">
</div>
<div id="searchcombobox-1077-trigger-picker" class="x-form-trigger x-form-trigger-toolbar x-form-search-trigger x-form-search-trigger-toolbar "></div>
</div>
The VBA code used is:
HTMLDoc.getElementById("searchcombobox-1077-inputEl").Value = '11xx111'
Set click_el = HTMLDoc.querySelector("#searchcombobox-1077-trigger-picker")
With click_el
.Focus
.FireEvent "onclick"
End With
What should be the approach that I need to take into consideration since the div element that I need to click on is empty?
Thanks,
I'm trying to add a click and select value from dropwdown for this HTML code.
I'm unable to make the click change.
I tried getelementbyID and getelementbyclassname.
<form method="POST" action="/submit" accept-charset="UTF-8" id="project-form">
<div class="form-fields">
<h1>Basics</h1>
<div class="control-groups">
<label for="project_requestor">Primary Delivery Contact / Project Requestor
<span>*</span></label>
<select class="required tooltip dropdown" data-placeholder="Select Sub- Category"
id="project_requestor" name="project_requestor" data-type="contact_name">
<option value="0">Select Requestor</option>
</select>
</div>
Assuming you are using IE and that you have a proper wait before attempting these i.e.
While ie.Busy Or ie.readyState < 4: DoEvents: Wend
To click dropdown:
ie.document.querySelector("#project_requestor").click
To select first option:
ie.document.querySelector("#project_requestor [value='0']").Selected = True
The # is a css id selector. The [] is a css attribute selector. These target the elements by the css of the page.
I am writing an automation for work and am stuck with a dropdown. The particular select box in question is as follows:
<span class="a-dropdown-container" id="select-size-bulk-asin">
<select name="display_type" class="a-native-dropdown">
<option value="SMALL-IMAGES">SMALL-IMAGES</option>
<option value="LARGE-IMAGES">LARGE-IMAGES</option>
<option value="TEXT">TEXT</option>
</select>
<span tabindex="-1" data-a-class="a-spacing-small" class="a-button a-button-dropdown a-spacing-small">
<span class="a-button-inner">
<span class="a-button-text a-declarative" data-action="a-dropdown-button" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" tabindex="0" aria-pressed="false" aria-owns="2_dropdown_combobox">
<span class="a-dropdown-prompt">SMALL-IMAGES</span>
</span>
<i class="a-icon a-icon-dropdown"></i>
</span>
</span>
</span>
It defaults to 'SMALL Images' and I would like to select the 'TEXT' option. I am receiving element not clickable error. The page is simple and the element is visible on the screen.
The list of methods I did try are:
Used WebDriverWait to wait for the element to be visible;
Used WebDriverWait to wait for the element to be clickable;
Used the select class to set the selected option;
I also read through a question.
I am thinking if I should just go to the next element and send Shift+Tabs until I reach this drop down and then down arrow keys. But would like to use that only as the last resort.
NOTE:
- I am using Python 3 and Chrome.
You can try this code to select value from drop down :
select = Select(driver.find_element_by_id('select-size-bulk-asin'))
select.select_by_visible_text('TEXT')
However,as you have mentioned you are receiving element not clickable exception. you can try this code :
WebDriverWait(browser, 30).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "select-size-bulk-asin")))
As a last resort you can go ahead with :
drop_down= driver.find_element_by_id("select-size-bulk-asin")
drop_down.click()
actions = ActionChains(driver)
actions.send_keys(Keys.ARROW_DOWN)
actions.send_keys(Keys.ARROW_DOWN)
actions.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
actions.perform()
I'm using Soda (node.js) w/ Selenium RC to automate browser testing.
If I have an AngularJS directive -> say a button that has a spinner -> and it appears multiple times on a page, how can I make sure to click on that particular button...when it has no DOM ID or unique class? In my case, "Login" and "Some Other Button" are dynamic and would be unique for all buttons in the ng-view.
<my-requesting-button text="Login" class="ng-isolate-scope ng-scope">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-large">
<img src="/img/progress.gif" style="display: none;">
<span>Login</span>
</button>
</requesting-button>
<my-requesting-button text="Some Other Button" class="ng-isolate-scope ng-scope">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-large">
<img src="/img/progress.gif" style="display: none;">
<span>Some Other Button</span>
</button>
</requesting-button>
Soda (basically directly from the example):
browser
.chain
.session()
.open('/')
.clickAndWait('...LOGIN BUTTON REF?')
.waitForPageToLoad(2 * 1000)
.clickAndWait('...SOMEOTHER BUTTON REF?')
.waitForPageToLoad(2 * 1000)
You can give it a unique ID/class name. If you know this element will only ever be on the page once, you can give it a unique ID. If not, you can give it a class name so that Selenium can find just the first one, or the one near your login form.
To do this, you can either pass the text value (e.g. "Login") to your button so that it has it:
<button class="{{text}}Button">
or you can tell Selenium to find the button that comes right after the element whose text attribute is "Login".