Selenium check for text otherwise prompts the next task

November 18, 2021

On python 3.9 and selenium 4.0.0

So I’m currently trying to go to a website and check if there is text there like "Please enter your username" and if that text is not there, it’ll open up a different tab and go to a different website.

This is my current code:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())  # opens a new chrome window
driver.maximize_window()  # maximizes the window
driver.get('website.com')

if driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="outside"]/div[4]/div/p [contains(text(), "Please enter your Username and Password to continue.")]').click() is True:
    loginBox = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//input[@id="username"]') 
    loginBox.send_keys("username") 

    password = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//input[@type = "password"]')
    password.send_keys("password")
else:
    pass

driver.execute_script("window.open('about:blank','secondtab');")
driver.switch_to.window("secondtab")
driver.get("secondwebsite.com")
...

It currently just opens the website and sits there while not checking for any of the conditions I wanted.

>Solution :

.click returns type is void, so it would not make any sense to have it returned as true.

Also, if you use find_elements (Plural), you would have a list.

Please use the below code :

try:
    if len(driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//*[@id='outside']/div[4]/div/p [contains(text(), 'Please enter your Username and Password to continue.')]")) > 0:
        print("This means that the above xpath is valid and have a node in HTMLDOM")
        WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='outside']/div[4]/div/p [contains(text(), 'Please enter your Username and Password to continue.')]"))).click()
        loginBox = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//input[@id="username"]')
        loginBox.send_keys("username")

        password = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//input[@type = "password"]')
        password.send_keys("password")
    else:
        print("Please check this xpath, //*[@id='outside']/div[4]/div/p [contains(text(), 'Please enter your Username and Password to continue.')]")
        pass
except:
    pass

driver.execute_script("window.open('about:blank','secondtab');")
driver.switch_to.window("secondtab")
driver.get("secondwebsite.com")

I have induced Explicit waits (WebDriverWait), Please use below imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

Please check in the dev tools (Google chrome) if we have unique entry in HTML DOM or not.

xpath that you should check :

//*[@id='outside']/div[4]/div/p [contains(text(), 'Please enter your Username and Password to continue.')]

Steps to check:

Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL + F -> then paste the xpath and see, if your desired element is getting highlighted with 1/1 matching node.