Python Selenium - Any way to get send text within this textbox?

Question

I'm tring to select a textbox to input some data into it, the problem is i don't know how to get it's element:

This is what i get whem i do inspect on it:

<input class=" input" maxlength="255" type="text" aria-describedby="" placeholder="" id="8624:0" data-aura-rendered-by="8628:0" data-interactive-lib-uid="28">

The thing is that this is basically to fill forms, and id, rendered by, and uid numbers change. Is there anything i could try?

Answer 1

To send a character sequence to the <input> element 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(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.input[type='text'][data-aura-rendered-by][aria-describedby]"))).send_keys("Smece")
  

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@class=' input' and @type='text'][@data-aura-rendered-by and @aria-describedby]"))).send_keys("Smece")
  

• 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