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Selenium fields containing a word - graham23s - Jul-23-2019
Hi Guys,
I was wondering if it is possible using Selenium to interact with a field if it contains a word, for example:
<select id="field_10_month" name="field_10_month"
<select id="field_10_day" name="field_10_day"
<select id="field_10_year" name="field_10_year"
With the fields above if the first one contained the word: month then i would know in the script to select a month, the same idea would go for day and year
Is this even possible with selenium at the minute?
cheers guys
Graham
RE: Selenium fields containing a word - metulburr - Jul-23-2019
you mean something like this?
value = 'month'
browser.find_element_by_id('field_10_{}'.format(value))Otherwise could you elaborate a little more? I not really sure on what your asking.
RE: Selenium fields containing a word - graham23s - Jul-23-2019
Hello :)
Kind of like:
if self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//select[contains(text(), 'month')]"):
print("FOUND! an element that contains the word 'month' has been found!")
select = Select(self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//select[contains(text(), 'month')]"))
select.select_by_index(2)In this mockup if the find element contains a keyword (month in this example) it will randomly select a drop down value.Does this make sense ok? :)
regards
Graham
RE: Selenium fields containing a word - Gaurav_Kumar - Aug-22-2023
Yes, you can achieve this using Selenium in combination with Python. You can use the find_element_by_id method to locate the <select> elements by their id attribute, and then you can use the get_attribute method to retrieve the name attribute value.
Like this:-
month_select = driver.find_element_by_id("field_10_month")
day_select = driver.find_element_by_id("field_10_day")
year_select = driver.find_element_by_id("field_10_year")month_name = month_select.get_attribute("name")
day_name = day_select.get_attribute("name")
year_name = year_select.get_attribute("name")