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How to enter values in an edit box in Selenium with python?

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Updated on 29-Jul-2020 07:48:00

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We can enter values in an edit box in Selenium with the help of the methods listed below −Using the send_keys method.This method can send any text to an edit box or perform pressing keys with the help of Keys class.Using the Javascript executor.Javascript Document Object Model can work with ... Read More

How to fetch values from a webelement in Selenium with python?

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Updated on 29-Jul-2020 07:46:12

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We can fetch values from a webelement in Selenium with the help of the methods listed below −Using the text method.This will give the inner text of the webelement. It basically gives us the visible text on the screen and its sub element if any. This method will also remove ... Read More

How will you travel from child to parent with xpath in Selenium with python?

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Updated on 29-Jul-2020 07:41:59

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We can identify a parent from its children in DOM with the help of xpath. There are situations where we have dynamic attributes for the parent node in html but the child nodes have unique static attributes for identification.This can be achieved with the help of relative xpath along with ... Read More

What is xpath in Selenium with python?

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Updated on 29-Jul-2020 07:40:05

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Xpath is one the locators used in Selenium to identify elements uniquely on a web page. It traverses the DOM to reach the desired element having a particular attribute with/without tagname.The xpath can represented by the ways listed below −//tagname[@attribute='value']//*[@attribute='value']The xpath can be created by the following methods −OR & ... Read More

What are the differences between xpath and css in Selenium with python?

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Updated on 29-Jul-2020 07:38:10

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Both xpath and css are one the most frequently used locators in Selenium. Though there are other locators like id, name, classname, tagname, and link text and so on, xpath and css are used when there are no unique attributes available to identify the elements.There are some differences between xpath ... Read More

How to identify nth element using xpath in Selenium with python?

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Updated on 29-Jul-2020 07:34:22

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There are multiple ways of building a customized xpath. In case we need to identify nth element we can achieve this by the ways listed below.position() method in xpath.Suppose we have two edit boxes in a page with similar xpath and we want to identify the first element, then we ... Read More

Explain some of the ways of creating customized css in Selenium with python?

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Updated on 29-Jul-2020 07:32:08

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The css is one of the important locators in Selenium. A customized css can be developed with the help of attributes like id, classname and by the combination of tagname and html attributes.The ways of creating a css are listed below −Using a class name html attribute.This will select the ... Read More

How to use text() in xpath in Selenium with python?

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Updated on 29-Jul-2020 07:29:54

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We can create a customized xpath with the help of the visible text on the page. This is achieved with the help of text() method in xpath.The text() finds the object with the exact text match on the page.Syntaxdriver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[text()='Selenium']")It will search for elements with visible text 'Selenium' on the page.ExampleCode ... Read More

How to use regular expressions in xpath in Selenium with python?

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Updated on 29-Jul-2020 07:27:39

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We can identify elements by matching its attributes partially with the help of regular expressions. In xpath, there are multiple methods to achieve this. They are listed below −Using the contains() method. This means the string contains our given text.Syntax −driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[contains(@name, 'sel')]")It will search the input tag which contains the ... Read More

How to use regular expressions in css in Selenium with python?

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Debomita Bhattacharjee

Updated on 29-Jul-2020 07:25:51

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We can identify elements by matching its attributes partially with the help of regular expressions. In css, there are multiple methods to achieve this. They are listed below −Using the wild character *. This means the string contains our given text.Syntax−driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input[name*='sel']")It will search the input tag which contains the 'name' ... Read More

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