Finding Radio Button using selenium in python

Question

I'm trying to make fill a feedback form ( actually it is attendance ) automatically with python. I'm able to traverse through all the pages but every page has different value and id for "Present" it is kind of dynamic

Is there a way I can find "Present" radio button on the page. I don't have much knowledge of html

P.S. I've read the question on stackoverflow already but the answer were not able to solve it will still give me error

Answer 1

This xpath should find your input tag based off the Present tag.

//span[text()='Present']/preceding::input

By it's class

//input[class='form-check-input ']

Answer 2

To click on the element with text as Present you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following xpath based Locator Strategies:

• Using index:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[@class='statusdesc' and text()='Present']//preceding::input[1]"))).click()
  

• Using attributes:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[@class='statusdesc' and text()='Present']//preceding::input[@class='form-check-input ' and @name='status']"))).click()
  

• 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