How to send text within username input field on a https://discord.com/register webpage with Selenium and Python3

Question

I'm trying to select the username text box in the https://discord.com/register website I tried:

driver.find_element ( by=By.CSS_SELECTOR ...)
driver.find_element ( by=By.CLASS_NAME ...)
driver.find_element ( by=By.CSS_XPATH ...)

They all didn't work . Can anyone help me out with this?

Answer 1

To send a character sequence to the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  driver.get('https://discord.com/register')
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name='username']"))).send_keys("text")
  

• Using XPATH:

  driver.get('https://discord.com/register')
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@name='username']"))).send_keys("tamer_mz")
  

• Note: You have to add the following imports :

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

• Browser Snapshot: