Unable to access the element using Selenium , Python and ChromeDriver

Question

Unable to Access the password by name tried this from a stackoverflow answer but still not working

<input type="password" class="required valid" style="font-size: 14px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0.3em !important; width: 100% !important; border-radius: 3px;" placeholder="password" name="password">

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65942589/unable-to-access-the-element-using-selenium-python-and-chromedriver

Answer 1

Instead of presence_of_element_located() you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using NAME:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.NAME, "password"))).click()
  

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name='password'][placeholder='password']"))).click()
  

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@name='password' and @placeholder='password']"))).click()
  

• 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