Selinium change input value of placeholder

Question

Hi i am trying to send input value using the sendkey command however it isn't changing.

HTML:

<div class="SimpleAutocomplete_autocompleteContent AutocompleteOverrides_autocompleteContent SimpleAutocomplete_opened AutocompleteOverrides_opened"><div class="SimpleAutocomplete_selectedWords AutocompleteOverrides_selectedWords"><input placeholder="" required="" value=""></div></div>

I have tried:

text = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='SimpleAutocomplete_autocompleteContent AutocompleteOverrides_autocompleteContent']"))).sendkeys("aa")

and

text = driver.find_element_by_id("placeholder").send_keys("aa")

all failed

snippets of the screen :

care to elaborate. on that? i have tried : #text = driver.find_element_by_id("placeholder").send_keys("aa") text = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@value='']"))).sendKeys("value", "aa") and other abbreviations — Djinn, Nov 18 '20 at 07:54

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 18 '20 at 08:52

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Target the input tag and not the div.

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.SimpleAutocomplete_selectedWords.AutocompleteOverrides_selectedWords>input"))).sendKeys("aaa")

answered Nov 18 '20 at 08:52

Arundeep Chohan

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 26 '20 at 22:38

You don't change the value of placeholder, rather you send a character sequence to the <input> tag which replaces the placeholder text.

To send a character sequence to the element you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.SimpleAutocomplete_autocompleteContent.AutocompleteOverrides_autocompleteContent.SimpleAutocomplete_opened.AutocompleteOverrides_opened > div.SimpleAutocomplete_selectedWords.AutocompleteOverrides_selectedWords > input"))).send_keys("Djinn")

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='SimpleAutocomplete_autocompleteContent AutocompleteOverrides_autocompleteContent SimpleAutocomplete_opened AutocompleteOverrides_opened']/div[@class='SimpleAutocomplete_selectedWords AutocompleteOverrides_selectedWords']/input"))).send_keys("Djinn")

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

Selinium change input value of placeholder

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