Failed to locate the webdriver element using Selenium |

Issue

Using selenium automation webdriver i’m unable to locate the text box element on a travel website using python. Using locator present in the webdriver such as Id/name/css_selector/class_name or xpath/full xpath.
Below is the screenshot of the python code:
[Code_1][1]

While the first one is located the second one isn’t. The corresponding HTML code is

[text_box2][2]

How can i fill(automate) both fileds corresponding flight destinations i.e leaving and going
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/gpoIr.jpg
[2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q7mGs.jpg

Solution

Here is a slightly different approach for locating things. I am using waits borrowed from CruisePandey in this thread. I used firefox, but that is adaptable. Some notes of what was hard:

I had to make sure to be on the Flights tab.
I had to click in the from and to fields, which were buttons after all, and then wait to be able to type into the revealed input fields.
Finally, I had to choose the first element from the dropdown list that resulted.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='/usr/bin/geckodriver')
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get('https://www.expedia.co.in')
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 15)
wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.LINK_TEXT, "Flights")))
driver.find_element_by_link_text('Flights').click()
wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "location-field-leg1-origin")))
driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME,'uitk-faux-input').click()
fieldInput = driver.find_element_by_id('location-field-leg1-origin')
wait.until(EC.visibility_of(fieldInput))
fieldInput.send_keys("SFO")
wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.TAG_NAME, "strong")))
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('strong').click()
driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME,'uitk-faux-input')[1].click()
fieldInput = driver.find_element_by_id('location-field-leg1-destination')
wait.until(EC.visibility_of(fieldInput))
fieldInput.send_keys("BOS")
wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"//strong[contains(text(), 'Boston')]")))
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//strong[contains(text(), 'Boston')]").click()

Answered By – Jeremy Kahan

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