python no such element: unable to locate element {"method": "id","selector":"email"}

Question

having trouble with my python code. I keep getting python no such element: unable to locate element {"method": "id","selector":"email"}

my code:

self.driver.get(redirecturl)

email = "testmail02015@
Password = "Passw0rd123"
emailFieldID = "email"
passwordFieldID = "password"
loginButtonXpath = "//button[@value='btnLogin']"

self.driver.find_element_by_id(emailFieldID).send_keys(email)
self.driver.find_element_by_id(passwordFieldID).send_keys(Password)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath(loginButtonXpath).click()

that means just that. there is no element with that id on your page. — njzk2, Aug 03 '16 at 17:08
Wait for the elements to load and click... Selenium is way faster than you think... — TechDog, Aug 03 '16 at 17:28

timbre timbre · Answer 1 · 2016-08-03T17:31:03.200

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Usually the problem is that find_element runs too quickly before page fully loaded. So try to wait for elements to appear (in the example it waits for maximum of 10 seconds; less if element appears earlier):

...
emailFieldID = "email"
...

WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located(browser.find_element_by_id(emailFieldID)))

self.driver.find_element_by_id(emailFieldID).send_keys(email)

After that you can use find_element as usual.

edited Aug 03 '16 at 17:31

answered Aug 03 '16 at 17:19

timbre timbre

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what part of the script do i add this too? sorry – Tony sanchez Aug 03 '16 at 17:29
`WebDriverWait.until()` returns the element waited for. You can just capture that and `.send_keys()` to it. There's no need to scrape the page again. – JeffC Aug 04 '16 at 02:21
@JeffC was trying to emphasize that waiting for `emailFieldID` was an arbitrary choice, nothing to do with the fact that the same field is operated upon. – timbre timbre Aug 04 '16 at 14:23
What should I import to use this line? – mm_ Mar 02 '19 at 19:29

python no such element: unable to locate element {"method": "id","selector":"email"}

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