Perform TAB action until active element is the required element - Python

Question

I want to perform TAB action until I have reached a particular web-element. Until the active element is the below mentioned element, TAB action has to be performed.

>name = driver.find_element_by_name("name")
>name.send_keys("ABC")
>group = driver.find_element_by_name("group") 
>group.send_keys("DEF")

I am able to find element till the above state. After that, I want to perform TAB action until the below mentioned element is found. I guess using a loop would help.

elem = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.PeriodCell input')

Please find below the HTML code

<div class="PeriodCell" style="left:px; width:112px;">
<div class="Effort forecasting">
<div class="entity field-value-copy-selected">
<input type="text" value="0.0" data-start="2014-09-20">
</div>
</div>
<div class="Effort unmet zero" title="">0.0
</div>
</div>

Please help. Thanks in Advance.

for tab action `from pywinauto.keyboard import SendKeys` `SendKeys("TAB ,number of the tab")` — bhupathi turaga, Jun 01 '18 at 06:41
I perform tab action to move from that element to the next element. I want to keep doing the same until I have reached the below element > elem = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.PeriodCell input') — Abraham, Jun 01 '18 at 06:59
I tried that. There is a horizontal scroll bar at that place and the bar is moved little towards the right by default. So the element is hidden. I got the below error, ElementNotVisibleException: element not visible — Abraham, Jun 01 '18 at 07:04
elem = driver.find_element_by_class_name('PeriodCell').click() — bhupathi turaga, Jun 01 '18 at 07:11

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 01 '18 at 07:29

You can bring the element to the visible part of the screen by using one of the following methods.

Using driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", element) you can read more about scrollIntoView() method here.
Using the Actions class of selenium webdriver.

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

element = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.PeriodCell input')
actions = ActionChains(driver)
actions.move_to_element(element).perform()

You can read the difference between these two methods here

If you still need to use the TAB action to reach the element

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

and using .send_keys(Keys.TAB) send the TAB key to the element

I am getting this error ElementNotVisibleException: element not visible — Abraham, Jun 01 '18 at 12:38
@Abraham : There are 3 approaches in my answer. Which approach in particular gives you this error? — GPT14, Jun 01 '18 at 12:42

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '18 at 10:17

To perform TAB Action until you find a particular WebElement would not be as per the best practices. As per your comment the element is hidden so you need to bring the element within the Viewport first and then invoke click()/send_keys() as follows:

myElement = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='PeriodCell']//input[@type='text'][@value=\"0.0\"]")
driver.execute_script("return arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", myElement)
# perfrom any action on the element

However the alternative using the TAB Action is as follows:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

global element
element = driver.find_element_by_name("name")
element.send_keys("ABC")
element = driver.find_element_by_name("group") 
element.send_keys("DEF")
while True:
    element.send_keys(Keys.TAB)
    element = driver.switch_to_active_element()
    if (element.get_attribute("type")=='text' and element.get_attribute("value")=='0.0' and element.get_attribute("data-start")=='2014-09-20'):
    print("Element found")
    break
# do anythin with the element

Perform TAB action until active element is the required element - Python

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