getElementById() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)

Question

I want to do an automation of the Internet Explorer. Open the Internet Explorer, navigate to login.live.com and set a value into the email textbox.

Here's the simple script:

import win32com.client
import time

IE = win32com.client.DispatchEx("InternetExplorer.Application")
IE.Visible = 1
IE.Navigate('login.live.com')

time.sleep(5)

DOC = IE.document
DOC.getElementById('i0116').value = 'test'

The last line always returns the following TypeError:

getElementById() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)

When I try to add the value through the console of the Internet Explorer it works.

Btw. the getElementsByTagName() method works without any Errors.

Thanks for any help!

Hope this will help. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9816967/interesting-getelementbyid-takes-exactly-1-argument-2-given-sometimes-it — ravindar, Aug 29 '16 at 11:52

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 30 '16 at 09:27

Okay.. I wrote a workaround for this:

DOC = IE.Document
inputs = DOC.documentElement.getElementsByTagName('input')

for field in inputs:
    if field.id == 'i0116':
        email = field
        break
email.value = 'example@test.com'

For browser automation I recommend to use the Selenium library.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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As this answer suggests you have to use

DOC.Body.getElementById('i0116').value = 'test'

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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answered Aug 29 '16 at 11:52

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I also tried this but then it returns an AttributeError: AttributeError: .getElementById – Marc Egolf Aug 29 '16 at 11:58

getElementById() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)

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