Selenium can't find element by id (tried XPATH as well) (Python)

Question

Trying to fill out the form of a site and not matter what it can't find the element. I looked to see if maybe it was an iframe issue but I don't think so.

    # For Browser 1
    browser1 = webdriver.Chrome(options=opts, service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
    browser1.get("https://www.msg.com/ufc-295/")

    browser1.implicitly_wait(2)
    
    first_name = browser1.find_element(By.ID, "field147946152-first")
    last_name = browser1.find_element(By.ID, "field147946152-last")
    email = browser1.find_element(By.ID, "field147946153")
    submit = browser1.find_element(By.ID, "fsSubmitButton5363561")

HTML code of the fields (looks terrible when I copy the html from inspect) so I will add an image.

Link if needed: https://www.msg.com/ufc-295/

Please copy the HTML into a code block (delimited on each end by `\`\`\``), it will look fine then. — Nick, Aug 29 '23 at 04:23
implicit wait does not help with client side generated context like react use sleep(10) to see if it will resolve if it does take WebdriverWait into consideration https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26566799/wait-until-page-is-loaded-with-selenium-webdriver-for-python — X-_-FARZA_ D-_-X, Aug 29 '23 at 04:28

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 29 '23 at 05:04

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Your code won't work because the website has an iframe tag in the HTML you are trying to access.

One alternative is to go to the form directly:

# the URL in the iFrame tag when you inspect the page
driver.get('https://msg-wmzqo.formstack.com/forms/ufc_295')
driver.find_element('//*[@id="field147946152-first"]).send_keys('First Name') #first name input

Another alternative is discussed here.

answered Aug 29 '23 at 05:04

Suraj Shourie

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Thanks a lot, somehow missed the iframe url, def makes my life easier. – kian Aug 29 '23 at 06:53

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 30 '23 at 03:53

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Switch to iframe then u will be able to find the element

driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//iframe[contains(@class, '_1oz60')]")) #Switching to IFRAME <br>
driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"//*[@id='field147946152-first']").send_keys("name_here")

edited Aug 30 '23 at 03:53

Yaroslavm

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answered Aug 29 '23 at 05:20

Allwin baby

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I have another site with an iframe but no url that I can find right now anyways in the iframe, so I will probably use this approach, thanks! – kian Aug 29 '23 at 06:54

Selenium can't find element by id (tried XPATH as well) (Python)

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