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Python and Selenium To “execute_script” to solve “ElementNotVisibleException”

rated 0 times [ 12] [ 1] / answers: 1 / hits: 34667 / 9 Years ago, tue, july 14, 2015, 12:00:00

I am using Selenium to save a webpage. The content of webpage will change once certain checkbox(s) are clicked. What I want is to click a checkbox then save the page content. (The checkboxes are controlled by JavaScript.)

Firstly I used:

driver.find_element_by_name(keywords_here).click()

it ends with an error:

NoSuchElementException

then I tried “xpath” like, with implicit/explicit waiting:

URL = “the url”



verificationErrors = []

accept_next_alert = True



aaa = driver.get(URL)

driver.maximize_window()

WebDriverWait(driver, 10)



#driver.find_element_by_xpath(.//*[contains(text(), ' keywords_here')]).click()

#Or: 



driver.find_element_by_xpath(//label[contains(text(),' keywords_here')]/../input[@type='checkbox']).click()

it gives an error:

ElementNotVisibleException

Posts

How to force Selenium WebDriver to click on element which is not currently visible?

Selenium Element not visible exception

suggest it should make the checkboxes visible before clicking, for example using:

execute_script

The question may sounds stupid, but how can I find out the proper sentence to “execute_script” the visibility of checkbox from the page source code?

Besides that, is there another way?

Thanks.

by the way, the line html code looks like:

<input type=checkbox onclick=ComponentArt_HandleCheck(this,'p3',11); name=keywords_here>

its xpath looks like:

//*[@id=TreeView1_item_11]/tbody/tr/td[3]/input

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answered 9 Years ago sonja · Accepted Answer

Alternative option would be to make the click() inside execute_script():

# wait for element to become present

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)

checkbox = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, keywords_here)))



driver.execute_script(arguments[0].click();, checkbox)

where EC is imported as:

from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

Alternatively and as an another shot in the dark, you can use the element_to_be_clickable Expected Condition and perform the click in a usual way:

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)

checkbox = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.NAME, keywords_here)))



checkbox.click()