Select checkbox using Selenium with Python

The checkbox HTML is:

<input id="C179003030-ORNL_DAAC-box" name="catalog_item_ids[]" type="checkbox" value="C179003030-ORNL_DAAC">

so you can use

browser.find_element_by_id("C179003030-ORNL_DAAC-box").click()

One way you can find elements' attributes is using the Google Chrome Developer Tools:

You can try in this way as well:

browser.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[@id='C179003030-ORNL_DAAC-box']")

If you want know if it's already checked or not:

browser.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[@id='C179003030-ORNL_DAAC-box']").get_attribute('checked')

to click:

browser.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[@id='C179003030-ORNL_DAAC-box']").click()

Here's one way to select/click the checkbox with a complete solution.

this is the website , for example.

and let's say this is the desired checkbox on the given website (marked under red loop) to perform a click.

solution:

import time
from selenium.webdriver import Chrome
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
import selenium.webdriver.support.expected_conditions as EC

driver = Chrome()
driver.get('https://register.whirlpool.com/en-us/registration')

WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'privacy_policy')))
driver.execute_script("document.getElementById('privacy_policy').click();")
time.sleep(2)
var1 = driver.find_element(By.ID, "privacy_policy").is_selected()
print(var1)

output:

True

1. First, we wait and locate the element By the available methods(here By.ID) to make sure that the target checkbox element is loaded/located on the page.
2. Next, execute the javascript query (here document.getElementById('privacy_policy').click()) to click on the checkbox.
3. We can also verify if the click or the select was performed on the desired checkbox using the method is_selected() as mentioned above.
4. It'll return True if the checkbox was clicked/selected and False otherwise.

You can also cross-check by simply running the javascript query document.getElementById('privacy_policy').click() on the Console of the page and you'll see that it indeed performs the click on the desired checkbox.

This is the best approach to click by using Selenium Python:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

browser = webdriver.Firefox()

url = 'Any URL'
browser.get(url)

box = browser.find_element_by_xpath("paste the XPath expression here")
browser.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", box)

You can try this as well:

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
url = 'http://reverb.echo.nasa.gov/reverb/'
browser.get(url)
browser.find_element_by_name("catalog_item_ids[]").click()

The best way to handle the element "Checkbox" if it has text is to use a JavaScript function to extract it from the webpage:

For example: //*[text()='text on element']

Here also you can use the same while extracting the checkbox and use the click() function to check it.

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
url = "URl of site"
driver.get(url)
checkbox = driver.find_element_by_xpath(//*[text()='text on element'])
checkbox.click()

To check whether an element got checked or not, you may use the get_attribute() function.

For example: checkbox.get_attribute('checked')

I recommend reading this

https://splinter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/driver-and-element-api.html?highlight=radio#splinter.driver.DriverAPI.choose

browser.check("checkbox_name")