Filling in input box under HTML table

Question

I am trying to login into a webpage using Python Selenium. However, I am not getting the correct response. The input box is under an HTML table in the web.

This is what I have tried after looking up some tutorials online.

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//table[5]/tbody/tr[1]/td[2]/input").send_keys("hi")

The HTML code:

<html>

<head>...</head>

<body>

  <form name="form" action method="post" onsubmit>
    <table border="0" , width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">...</table>
    <table border="0" , width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">...</table>
    <table border="0" , width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">...</table>
    <table align="center" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">...</table>

    <table align="center" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
      <tbody>
        <tr align="left">
          <td class="mandatory"> USER ID</td>
          <td class="normal">
            <input class="subject" type="text" name="username" size="35" maxlength="10" onkeypress="navigate();">
          </td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>

I am interested to pick out the element at the input class = "subject", which is the fifth table.

The following is the xPath code copied from Chrome inspector:

/html/body/form/table[5]/tbody/tr[1]/td[2]/input

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 20 '19 at 01:58

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Here is the xpath that you can use.

 //form[@name='form']/table[5]//input[@name='username']

You can also use the other xpath shown in the screenshot.

answered Jun 20 '19 at 01:58

supputuri

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Hi supputuri, thanks for the prompt reply. However, I am hit by with this error selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//form[@name ='form']/table[5]//input[@name= 'username']"} – Wen Jiaxin Jun 20 '19 at 02:28
Are you sure you have only the html shared in OP? I am able to successfully enter the data. Check if you have any extra iframes in your application if it's different from the html that you posted in OP. – supputuri Jun 20 '19 at 02:32
That's right, it was indeed embedded in an iframes. I only understood it after going through a few rounds of web scrapping for other webs. Thanks! – Wen Jiaxin Jul 23 '19 at 01:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 20 '19 at 07:59

To send a character sequence to the login <input> element associated with the text USER ID you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element to be clickable and you can use either of the following solutions:can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.subject[name='username'][onkeypress^='navigate']"))).send_keys("Wen Jiaxin")

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@class='subject' and @name='username'][starts-with(@onkeypress, 'navigate')]"))).send_keys("Wen Jiaxin")

Note : You have to add the following imports :

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

Filling in input box under HTML table

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