Python Selenium - hot to get "Input" which going before the text inside the "td"

Question

HTML:

<tr>
   <td class="formtext" colspan="3">
   <span class="required">*</span>
     Are you?
   </td>
   <td class="formtext" colspan="3">

   <input type="radio" value="M">
     Male
   <input type="radio" value="F">
     Female

   </td>
</tr>

Python:

browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//td[contains(text(),"Are you?")]')[0].find_elements_by_xpath('./following::td[contains(text(),"Male")]//preceding-sibling::input')[0].click()

My current solution is working [0].click() = Male, [1].click() = "Female"

Question: Instead of using [0] and [1], how to set up so that if text() == "Male" the input before this text will be clicked, so this function will work based on TEXT

P.S. Please do not suggest using value (M/F), I need to make it work based on TEXT

I'm looking for something like this:

Male will be clicked

browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//td[contains(text(),"Are you?")]')[0].find_elements_by_xpath('./following::td[contains(text(),"Male")]//preceding-sibling::input')[0].click()

Female will be clicked

browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//td[contains(text(),"Are you?")]')[0].find_elements_by_xpath('./following::td[contains(text(),"Female")]//preceding-sibling::input')[0].click()

Tarun Lalwani · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-13T09:17:25.103

1

You can use something like below in your xpath

//td/text()[contains(.,'Male')]/preceding-sibling::input[1]

This will give the text node which contains Male and then previous input for the same

Also if you are ok to use value you should using like below for selecting Male option

//td/input[@type='radio'][@value='M']

edited May 13 '20 at 09:17

answered May 13 '20 at 09:10

Tarun Lalwani

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Please modify your answer as your current solution will not work for "Female". And this will work `//td/text()[contains(.,'Male')]/preceding-sibling::input[1]` – Oksana Krasiuk May 13 '20 at 09:16

undetected Selenium · Answer 2 · 2020-05-13T09:18:24.150

As Selenium uses xpath-1.0 it would be tough to identify the <input> tags based on the texts Male or Female. As an alternative, to click() on the element related to the text Male you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following xpath based Locator Strategies:

Male:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//td[@class='formtext' and contains(.,"Are you")]//following::td[1]/input"))).click()

Female:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//td[@class='formtext' and contains(.,"Are you")]//following::td[1]//following::input[2]"))).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

Please read the question, as your answer is NOT text dependant. — Oksana Krasiuk, May 13 '20 at 09:17

Python Selenium - hot to get "Input" which going before the text inside the "td"

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