<textarea style="font-size: 1.2em" ng-model="applications" ng-list=" " ng-trim="false" rows="15" cols="70" class="ng-valid ng-dirty ng-valid-parse ng-touched"></textarea>
This is the text area tag. I want to insert some text into the text area. How can I proceed with the python code for the selenium webdriver.
I tried:
driver.find_element_by_class_name("ng-pristine ng-valid ng-touched")
Please help me out.
To send a character sequence to the element you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using css_selector:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("textarea.ng-valid.ng-dirty.ng-valid-parse.ng-touched[ng-model='applications']").send_keys("samhith gardas")
Using xpath:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//textarea[@class='ng-valid ng-dirty ng-valid-parse ng-touched' and @ng-model='applications']").send_keys("samhith gardas")
However the desired element is a Angular element, so ideally to send a character sequence to 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:
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "textarea.ng-valid.ng-dirty.ng-valid-parse.ng-touched[ng-model='applications']"))).send_keys("samhith gardas")
Using XPATH:
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//textarea[@class='ng-valid ng-dirty ng-valid-parse ng-touched' and @ng-model='applications']"))).send_keys("samhith gardas")
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
driver.find_element_by_class_name("ng-pristine.ng-valid.ng-touched").
Or
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//textarea[@claaa='ng-pristine ng-valid ng-touched']")
Class with space indicates multiple classes , so you have to replace space with dot in find_element_by_class
Else use xpath and find the element that matches absolute attribute value of the class
