I am using Selenium to save a webpage. The content of webpage will change once certain checkbox(s) are clicked. What I want is to click a checkbox then save the page content. (The checkboxes are controlled by JavaScript.)
Firstly I used:
driver.find_element_by_name("keywords_here").click()
it ends with an error:
NoSuchElementException
then I tried “xpath” like, with implicit/explicit waiting:
URL = “the url”
verificationErrors = []
accept_next_alert = True
aaa = driver.get(URL)
driver.maximize_window()
WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
#driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[contains(text(), ' keywords_here')]").click()
#Or:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//label[contains(text(),' keywords_here')]/../input[@type='checkbox']").click()
it gives an error:
ElementNotVisibleException
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suggest it should make the checkboxes visible before clicking, for example using:
execute_script
The question may sounds stupid, but how can I find out the proper sentence to “execute_script” the visibility of checkbox from the page source code?
Besides that, is there another way?
Thanks.
by the way, the line html code looks like:
<input type="checkbox" onclick="ComponentArt_HandleCheck(this,'p3',11);" name="keywords_here">
its xpath looks like:
//*[@id="TreeView1_item_11"]/tbody/tr/td[3]/input
Alternative option would be to make the click()
inside execute_script()
:
# wait for element to become present
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
checkbox = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, "keywords_here")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", checkbox)
where EC
is imported as:
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
Alternatively and as an another shot in the dark, you can use the element_to_be_clickable
Expected Condition and perform the click in a usual way:
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
checkbox = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.NAME, "keywords_here")))
checkbox.click()