How do I identify the element by the class with Selenium and Python?

Question

<input class="inputDefault-_djjkz input-cIJ7To" name="password" type="password" placeholder="" aria-label="Password" autocomplete="off" maxlength="999" spellcheck="false" value="">```

^this is the HTML ive been trying something like

login = driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//*[@class='inputDefault-_djjkz input-cIJ7To']/div/input").click()

thanks for any help

Answer 1

You can use the following code :

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@class='inputDefault-_djjkz input-cIJ7To']")

Answer 2

To identify the clickable element you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using css_selector:

  element = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name='password'][aria-label='Password']")
  

• Using xpath:

  element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//input[@name='password' and @aria-label='Password']")
  

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Ideally, to identify the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name='password'][aria-label='Password']")))
  

• Using XPATH:

  element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@name='password' and @aria-label='Password']")))
  

• Note: You have to add the following imports :

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