Selenium-python无法找到具有某些名称属性的元素

Question

I'm using selenium-python 2.46.1, and input elements with names like chunk_items-__prefix__-chunk_title don't come up with the following code:

input element is :

<input id="id_chunk_items-__prefix__-chunk_title" maxlength="255" name="chunk_items-__prefix__-chunk_title" type="text" />

I have tried:

ids = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//input')
        for ii in ids:
            print ii.get_attribute('name')    # id name as string

or

elem = driver.find_element_by_name("chunk_items-__prefix__-chunk_title")

though

'assert "chunk_items-__prefix__-chunk_title" in self.driver.page_source' is fine

Any ideas?

Answer 1

In a webpage(even on simple one) there could be many input tags and you don't want to loop through all of them to find one attribute. Since the html tag contains id attribute(and I assume that is unique) you can easily find the element and check for any attribute there.

element = driver.find_element_by_id('id_chunk_items-__prefix__-chunk_title')
name = element.get_attribute('name')
assert "chunk_items-__prefix__-chunk_title" in name

Answer 2

Yes, I realise looping through is not the way normally, I should have explained better that this was just to see if they showed up.

I've found out now that some Javascript is causing issues, so it wasn't an issue with Selenium after all.

Thanks anyway.