Can't locate element - Selenium

Question

I'm trying to find a textarea in my facebook group. The login is ok, driver.get(group) is ok too but then, when I try to locate the textarea, it returns that it can't locate it. The weird thing is that I can clearly see it there.

  def send_post(self,text,group):
        assert self.logged == True
        self.driver.get(group)
        text_field = self.driver.find_element_by_css_selector('div.innerWrap').find_element_by_tag_name('xhpc_message_text')
        text_field.send_keys(text)
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@value='1']").click()

Do you know what am I doing wrong? Do you have a better way to post to fb group?

Answer 1

xhpc_message_text isn't a tag name; textarea is.

If you're talking about the post-writing <textarea> , then it has a name attribute (different!) of xhpc_message_text . You can combine your find_element_by_* calls into one:

text_field = self.driver.find_element_by_css_selector('div.innerWrap [name="xhpc_message_text"]')