Find element using parent/sibling in python selenium

Question

I am using selenium in python to scrape a web page designed with angular js and hence has no robust identifiers for elements such as id etc. I am completely reliant on CSS selectors (which are dynamic) and xpaths.

I have the following code -

<div class="dpm-form-row ng-star-inserted">
<dpm-input-number class="flex-6">
<dpm-input-label>
<label>Fixed Rate</label>
</dpm-input-label>
<dpm-input-number-bare>
<input size="1" type="text" placeholder="" class="ng-pristine ng-valid ng-touched">
</dpm-input-number-bare>
</dpm-input-number>
<div class="flex-6">
</div>
</div>

It's basically a label called "Fixed Rate" followed by an input text box. Its that box I am trying to grab.

I have managed to get the label using the following code, I am having trouble using the parent/sibling logic to get the box -

element = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[contains(text(),"Fixed Rate")]')

You can copy the xpath of input element by inspecting element. — Kaushal Kumar
– Kaushal Kumar, Commented Jul 25, 2020 at 14:20
doesnt the browser renders jsx or whatever angular uses to html? — Vishesh Mangla
– Vishesh Mangla, Commented Jul 25, 2020 at 15:34

E.Wiest · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-25 14:23:39Z

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Repost from your preceding question. Original solution :

//input[@class="ng-pristine ng-valid ng-touched"][../preceding-sibling::dpm-input-label[1]/label[.="Fixed Rate"]]

3 XPath using following-sibling axis :

//dpm-input-label[label[.="Fixed Rate"]]/following-sibling::dpm-input-number-bare[1]/input
//dpm-input-label[label[contains(.,"Fixed Rate")]]/following-sibling::dpm-input-number-bare[1]/input
//dpm-input-label[contains(.,"Fixed Rate")]/following-sibling::dpm-input-number-bare[1]/input

3 XPath using preceding-sibling axis and multiple contains for the input element :

//input[contains(@class,"ng-pristine") and contains(@class,"ng-valid") and contains(@class,"ng-touched")][../preceding-sibling::dpm-input-label[1]/label[.="Fixed Rate"]]
//input[contains(@class,"ng-pristine") and contains(@class,"ng-valid") and contains(@class,"ng-touched")][../preceding-sibling::dpm-input-label[1]/label[contains(.,"Fixed Rate")]]
//input[contains(@class,"ng-pristine") and contains(@class,"ng-valid") and contains(@class,"ng-touched")][../preceding-sibling::dpm-input-label[1][contains(.,"Fixed Rate")]]

4 XPath using preceding axis :

//input[@class="ng-pristine ng-valid ng-touched"][preceding::label[1][.="Fixed Rate"]]
//input[@class="ng-pristine ng-valid ng-touched"][preceding::label[1][contains(.,"Fixed Rate")]]
//input[contains(@class,"ng-pristine") and contains(@class,"ng-valid") and contains(@class,"ng-touched")][preceding::label[1][.="Fixed Rate"]]
//input[contains(@class,"ng-pristine") and contains(@class,"ng-valid") and contains(@class,"ng-touched")][preceding::label[1][contains(.,"Fixed Rate")]]

answered Jul 25, 2020 at 14:23

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2 Comments

Labeeb Nazim Over a year ago

Thank you vm, for some reason the original solution wasnt working, thanks a lot again

undetected Selenium Over a year ago

Your answers are really so helpful specially the options you provide within your answers.

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