Finding an empty input box using selenium

Question

I have multiple input boxes on a webpage with the following xPaths:

//*[@id="swatch-visual-options-panel"]/table/tbody/tr[1478]/td[4]/input

//*[@id="swatch-visual-options-panel"]/table/tbody/tr[1480]/td[4]/input

//*[@id="swatch-visual-options-panel"]/table/tbody/tr[1481]/td[4]/input

One of which is empty and all the others have text inside them. As you may have guessed, there are 1481 elements with the previous xPath pattern but I only want to locate the empty one.

How do I go about doing this in Python?

Can you share your html code? – Ahmed Mamdouh Sep 01 '20 at 05:50 — Ahmed Mamdouh, Sep 01 '20 at 05:50

Arundeep Chohan · Answer 1 · 2020-09-01T06:48:42.910

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You'd grab all the trs and then go through them and find empty ones.

trs = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[@id='swatch-visual-options-panel']/table/tbody/tr")
lst=[]
for tr in trs:   
    elem = tr.find_element_by_xpath("/td[4]/input")
    if(len(elem.text)==0):
       lst.append(elem)

edited Sep 01 '20 at 06:48

answered Sep 01 '20 at 06:12

Arundeep Chohan

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Gives no such element found exception at ``elem = tr.find_element_by_xpath("/td[4]/input")`` – Elbasel Sep 15 '20 at 22:28
Is this after page loading use a webdriver wait. – Arundeep Chohan Sep 15 '20 at 23:15

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 01 '20 at 11:20

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Among the multiple input boxes on the webpage to locate the <input> element without any text you can use the following xpath based Locator Strategy:

//*[@id="swatch-visual-options-panel"]/table/tbody/tr[1481]/td[4]/input[not(contains(text()))]

answered Sep 01 '20 at 11:20

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Finding an empty input box using selenium

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