Selenium won't locate element with any method

Question

I'm having trouble having selenium locate an element on a website (gleam to be exact). Ideally I would like the driver to send keys to an input field, but selenium won't locate it for some reason.

I've already tried locating by ID, Xpath and by name. Any suggestions on how to locate this element?

Here's the html:

<input
  id="contestant[name]"
  name="name"
  ng-model-options="{ debounce: 300 }"
  ng-model="contestantState.form.name"
  ng-pattern=".*"
  placeholder="Alice Smith" required=""
  style="width: 246px"
  type="text"
  class="ng-empty
  ng-invalid
  ng-invalid-required
  ng-valid-pattern
  ng-dirty
  ng-valid-parse
  ng-touched"
>

Did you wait enough time for the element to appear on the page? — Mate Mrše, Apr 23 '19 at 07:23
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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 23 '19 at 12:43

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Try one of these

By.CssSelector("[id*='contestant']")

By.CssSelector("[ng-model='contestantState.form.name']")

By.CssSelector("[name='name']")

answered Apr 23 '19 at 12:43

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 23 '19 at 08:47

Use WebDriverWait to handle the dynamic elements on Web Page.Try following code. If this code not work check whether your input element inside any iframe.

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions
from selenium import webdriver

inputelement=WebDriverWait(driver,40).until(expected_conditions.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID,'contestant[name]')))
inputelement.send_keys("Apple")

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 24 '19 at 11:07

To send a character sequence to the desired element as the element is an Angular element so you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element to be clickable and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.ng-empty.ng-invalid.ng-invalid-required.ng-valid-pattern.ng-dirty.ng-valid-parse.ng-touched[id=\"contestant[name]\"]"))).send_keys("ml2017")

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@class='ng-empty ng-invalid ng-invalid-required ng-valid-pattern ng-dirty ng-valid-parse ng-touched' and @id=\"contestant[name]\"]"))).send_keys("ml2017")

Selenium won't locate element with any method

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