'Selenium: How to deal with web elements that get hidden when you try to inspect them? Python 3.x related
I'm about to finish developing an automated program on Python and the only thing that's stopping me it's a web element that gets immediately hidden when I try to inspect it from an OpenSea page (can't share the link here since it requires to be connected to my wallet):
So far, I have only managed to get the XPATH and the CSS_SELECTOR of this problematic element (div#tippy-298) which is the following:
button_problematic_xpath = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="tippy-298"]')
button_problematic_css = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#tippy-298')
But what I need is to get the XPATH or CSS_SELECTOR of the Web Elements that button_problematic_css contains, more specifically the "Starting" and "Ending" Textboxes :
Also, just in case, the element that's on top of button_problematic_css is called "Duration", here's its XPATH:
button_duration = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="duration"]').click #after clicked it deploys div#tippy-298 element
I was wondering if there could be any method to force the visibility of this button_problematic_css using the Chrome Console in the Inspection of Web Elements, or by using an specific method from Selenium on Python3.x to inmediately download all of the web elements this page has right after button_problematic_css is visible.
What I have tried so far is to manually inspect the element, by pressing Ctrl + Shift + C and and then clicking the elements contained in button_problematic_css which just ends up hiding this element before even clicking its content, the same happens when trying to display the contents of this element in the DOM of this page, it just dissapears.
I just wish my program could be capable of editing the dates in the "Starting" and "Ending" Textboxes
Solution 1:[1]
I guess you need to click the button to show the element. why did I guess? you need to show the url
or u can also try this code:
clickmore=WebDriverWait(driver, 2).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, 'blabalabla')))
self.driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", clickmore)
button_duration = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="duration"]').click()
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| Solution | Source |
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| Solution 1 | GURU KT |


