How to insert text into an input tag using selenium and python

Question

I'm able to find the element by class name that this resides in but I'm not sure how to select it itself and send text to it.

Current Code:

editor = browser.find_element_by_class_name('editor')
editor.send_keys('text')

Element I'm trying to select:

<input type="text" tabindex="103" placeholder="" style="width: 444px;">

Error:

File "C:\Python35\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 347, in send_keys
    self._execute(Command.SEND_KEYS_TO_ELEMENT, {'value': keys_to_typing(value)})
  File "C:\Python35\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 494, in _execute
    return self._parent.execute(command, params)
  File "C:\Python35\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 236, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Python35\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 192, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot focus element
  (Session info: chrome=55.0.2883.87)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.27.440174 (e97a722caafc2d3a8b807ee115bfb307f7d2cfd9),platform=Windows NT 10.0.14393 x86_64)

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-09 08:09:57Z

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Element that you try to select doesn't have class name. Try

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

editor = WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//input[@type="text"][@tabindex="103"]')))
editor.send_keys('text')

edited Jan 9, 2017 at 8:09

answered Jan 8, 2017 at 20:41

Andersson

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Jonathan Porter Over a year ago

When I tried I received this error: selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: element not visible

Jonathan Porter Over a year ago

I got this error and searched it but no dice:

editor = WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//input[@type="text"][@tabindex="103"]')))   File "C:\Python35\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\wait.py", line 80, in until     raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

Andersson Over a year ago

if to replace '//input[@type="text"][@tabindex="103"]' with just '//input[@type="text"]'?

Jonathan Porter Over a year ago

Exception ignored in: <bound method Service.__del__ of <selenium.webdriver.chrome.service.Service object at 0x01931230>> Traceback (most recent call last):   File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 173, in __del__   File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 149, in stop   File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 120, in send_remote_shutdown_command ImportError: sys.meta_path is None, Python is likely shutting down

Andersson Over a year ago

It seem to be not related to current issue. ImportError is something different. Did you make any changes to your script?

acikojevic · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-08 20:58:25Z

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Try with editor.click() before editor.send_keys('text') and see if it works.

answered Jan 8, 2017 at 20:58

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Jonathan Porter Over a year ago

The cursor popped up in the correct area but the same error message came up.

acikojevic Over a year ago

Did you maybe try this with Firefoxdriver or IEdriver?

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