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I am trying to enter some text into a textarea with selenium.
Inspection of the source reveals the following about the textareas code.. my text should be entered where it says "Text goes here":
<iframe id="tinymcewindow_ifr" frameborder="2" src="javascript:""" allowtransparency="true" title="Rich Text AreaPress ALT-F12 for toolbar. Press ALT-0 for help" style="width: 90%; height: 90px; display: block;">
#document
<!DOCTYPE >
<html>
<head xmlns="http://www.site.org/xhtml"> … </head>
<body id="tinymce" class="mceContentBody " contenteditable="true" onload="window.parent.tinyMCE.get('tinymcewindow').onLoad.dispatch();" spellcheck="false" dir="ltr">
<p> … </p>
</body>
</html>
</iframe>
When I try and select the textarea with some command like:
driver.find_element_by_name("tinymce")
it returns an error message like this;
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 293, in find_element_by_name
return self.find_element(by=By.NAME, value=name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 681, in find_element
{'using': by, 'value': value})['value']
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 164, in execute
...
the command:
driver.find_element_by_id("tinymce")
Gives this error message:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 197, in find_element_by_id
return self.find_element(by=By.ID, value=id_)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 681, in find_element
{'using': by, 'value': value})['value']
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 164, in execute
...
How does one select a textbox like this with Selenium?
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try
driver.find_element_by_id("tinymce")
Elements in HTML Forms have name attribute, that is what you tried to match with find_element_by_name.
If you have a form like
<form>
First name: <input type="text" name="firstname"><br>
Last name: <input type="text" name="lastname">
</form>
You could match the input for first name with find_element_by_name('firstname'), but that's not what you want to do right now.
The element you want to select looks like this
<body id="tinymce" class="mceContentBody " contenteditable="true" onload="window.parent.tinyMCE.get('tinymcewindow').onLoad.dispatch();" spellcheck="false" dir="ltr">
So you can
find_element_by_id("tinymce")find_element_by_css_selector("#tinymce")find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='tinymce']")... and for the sake of completeness ...
Once you have selected this element, you can fill it with
driver.find_element_by_id("tinymce").send_keys("Hello world")
EDIT:
Sometimes people don't realise that selecting an element works within the context of current page. If your content is inside an iframe, you need to switch to this iframe first.
driver.switch_to_frame("frameName")
Then you can go back with driver.switch_to_default_content()
See Selenium Python - Navigating
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