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How to interact with Selenium form web elements in Python
Gutha Vamsi KrishnaOverview
Selenium is an open-source web-based automation tool. We'll learn how to interact with the Selenium form
We can use the find_element() method to find text fields. We'll then use the send_keys() method to fill the text fields, and use the click() method to submit the form by clicking the submit button.
Example
from selenium import webdriver
import time
#specify where your chrome driver present in your pc
PATH=r"C:\Users\educative\Documents\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe"
#get instance of web driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
#provide website url here
driver.get("http://demo.guru99.com/test/newtours/")
#find input text fields
user_name = driver.find_element("name","userName")
password = driver.find_element("name","password")
#find submit button
submit = driver.find_element("name","submit")
#fill input text fields
user_name.send_keys("mercury")
password.send_keys("mercury")
#submit form
submit.click()Interact with Selenium form web elements in Python
Explanation
- Line 1: We import the
webdriverfromseleniumpackage. - Line 2: We import the
time. - Line 5: We provide the path where we placed the driver of the web browser. For chrome, it is
chromedriver.exein windows environment. - Line 8: We get the instance of the
webdriver. - Line 11: We provide the URL to the
driver.get()method to open it. - Lines 14–15: We use the
find_element()method to get the input text fields—user_nameandpassword. - Line 18: We use the
find_element()method to get the submit button. - Lines 21–22: We use the
send_keys()method to fill the input text fields—user_nameandpassword. We pass text to place in that field as a parameter to thesend_keys()method. - Line 25: We use the
click()method to submit the form by clicking the submit button.
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