How to send text to an input element with type attribute as hidden using python and selenium

Question

I'm new to python and selenium. I want to click on the get_likes_button and I need to send the value = 1803345990687013485 when doing that.

Here's the HTML

<form action="" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> 
<i class="fa fa-heart" style="color: #F12938;"></i> 20 </span> 
<input type="hidden" value="1803345990687013485" name="id">
<button class="btn btn-primary pull-right" type="submit" name="submit"
 id="get_likes_button"> Get Likes </button> </form></b>

Here's the code

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='id']").send_key('1803345990687013485')
driver.find_element_by_id('get_likes_button').submit()

I get the following message

Exception: Message: Element not visible.

Where are you getting the exception? note that the first element has type='hidden' attribute. In addition, get_likes_button is id, not name. — Guy
– Guy, Commented Jun 17, 2018 at 7:46
I changed it to findElementById() but I'm still getting the same error message — Will P.
– Will P., Commented Jun 17, 2018 at 8:36

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-17 17:38:45Z

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This error message...

Exception: Message: Element not visible.

...implies that the desired element is not visible.

The main issue is the <input> tag is having an attribute type="hidden".

To send the character sequence 1803345990687013485 to the input field and invoke click() on the button you can use the following solution:

driver.execute_script("document.getElementsByName('id')[0].setAttribute('type','text')")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='id']").send_key('1803345990687013485')
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@class='btn btn-primary pull-right' and @id='get_likes_button']").click()

answered Jun 17, 2018 at 17:38

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cruisepandey · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-17 16:00:00Z

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For clicking on Get Likes button you can use this code :

get_likes = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "get_likes_button")))

After that if input type changed from type='hidden' , you can interact with input field as :

input_field = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.NAME, "id")))

It's quite strange to see HTML like this :

<input name="id">

By the way, hope this will help.

answered Jun 17, 2018 at 16:00

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undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-17 17:39:30Z

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Try below snippet. Hope this will help you.

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.navigate().to(URL);                    
JavascriptExecutor javascriptExecuter = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
javascriptExecuter.executeScript("document.getElementsByName('id')[0].value='452525252525';");
driver.findElement(By.id("get_likes_button")).submit();

edited Jun 17, 2018 at 17:39

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answered Jun 17, 2018 at 10:34

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Veeresham Tammali Over a year ago

The above code written in java. Use JavascriptExecutor for updating hidden field value like above.

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