finding element in selenium webdriver code

Question

How to find the web chat input message text for above. I tried few of options but none of them seems to work

driver.find_elements_by_xpath("/html/body/app-root/bot-component/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/form")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[type='text]")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[type='text]")

You want to find the element or the text? – Tek Nath Nov 28 '19 at 08:13 — Tek Nath, Nov 28 '19 at 08:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 28 '19 at 07:30

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You should get value of attribute. Something like this.

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[type='text]").get_attribute("type")

answered Nov 28 '19 at 07:30

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 28 '19 at 09:39

You want to find the value of Data=id?

        element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@type='text']").get_attribute("data-id")
        print(element)

or you want to get the xpath locator on that tag?

    driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@data-id='webchat-sendbox-input']")

try putting this above the code:

    driver.switch_to.default_content()

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 29 '19 at 10:02

To locate the <input> tag, you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

element = WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div[data-id='webchat-sandbox-input'][@aria-label='Type your message']")))

Using XPATH:

element = WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@data-id='webchat-sandbox-input' and @aria-label='Type your message']")))

finding element in selenium webdriver code

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