How can I check if a checkbox is checked in Selenium Python Webdriver?

Question

I'm searching a week how check if a checkbox is checked in selenium webdriver with python, but I find only algoritms from JAVA. I readed the webdriver docs and it dont have a answer for that. Anyone have a solution?

Answer 1

There is a WebElement property called is_selected(), and for a check box this indicates whether or not it is checked. Therefore you can verify if it is checked/unchecked by doing something like this:

driver.find_element_by_name('<check_box_name>').is_selected()

or

driver.find_element_by_id('<check_box_id>').is_selected()

I remember having the same issue not being able to find documentation. It's easier to find once you know the name (here are some docs, is_selected is towards the bottom), but the way I have gone about trying to find different options/properties for Selenium objects is to just drop dir(some_object) in the code and see what options come up (this is how is_selected appeared).