Webpage elements can by foud by their id. That is one of the ways to select an element on a webpage with selenium.
You must have the element id, which you can get with developer tools. You can also use id or css to select a webpage element.
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How to Find Elements with Selenium
selenium find element by id
The selenium code uses find element by id to select the search box. Then it types a message in the search box.
#_*_coding: utf-8_*_
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time
browser=webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get("https://wiki.ubuntu.com")
element=browser.find_element(By.ID,"searchinput")
element.send_keys("typing")
print(element)
time.sleep(3)
browser.close()
selenium find list items
The Python code below uses selenium to find al the list items, li, on a webpage.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/locating-elements.html")
items = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, '//li')
for item in items:
print(item.text)
selenium find element by name
Selenium can find an element by name instead of code. That is done like this:
#_*_coding: utf-8_*_
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time
browser=webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get("https://stackoverflow.com")
element = browser.find_element_by_name("q")
element.send_keys("typing")
print(element)
time.sleep(3)
browser.close()
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