Python-Selenium,Unable to find element with xpath in IE browser

[zhaogu...@163.com]

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
1. The codes as below could be run in Firefox normally ,but if they
are run in IE browser and I get an error:
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: u'Unable
to find element with xpath == /html/body/form/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/
input'

from selenium import webdriver
import time
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

#driver=webdriver.Firefox()
driver=webdriver.Ie()

driver.get("http://db5v3.y1f1r1.test:8080/centrifydc-samples/")
time.sleep(3)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/ul/li/a").click()
time.sleep(3)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/form/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/
input").send_keys("Andy")

2. How to use implicitly_wait() method? Could I use it for wait page
loading ?

Eg:
driver.get("http://db5v3.y1f1r1.test:8080/centrifydc-samples/")
driver.implicitly_wait(30)

It's right ?

[SiKing]

IE does not normally insert the tbody element. Try to optimize your
XPath before actually using it. Something like //table//tr/td[2]
should work for all browsers.


On Oct 14, 12:03 am, "zhaoguoca...@163.com" <zhaoguoca...@163.com>
wrote:

[bruce]

as a followup...

when using the xpather app with firefox.. it often (as in almost
everytime) inserts a "tbody" element in the DOM.. never been able to
determine why???

however, the bottom line is that you need to be sure the elements in
the returned XPath from firefox are really in the html/DOM..

most of the time, you can simply remove the tbody, but check to be sure.

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[Mark Collin]

Because there should be a tbody element in there but most people don't
bother adding them. I personally notmally do:

//table/descendant::tr/td[2]

To make sure the occasional tbody doesn't trip me up.

as a followup...

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[zhaogu...@163.com]

Thank you guys, I enhanced my Xpath expression and fixed this
problem. :).

By the way , anybody could answer the second question in #item1?

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[Paras Jain]

Hi,

Also,I am using IE10, but Unable to find element using Python.

I am using "IE driver" with Selenium Python bindings,
I got the following exception:
         NoSuchElementException: Message: u'Unable to find element with id/Xpath/CSS

Note:- Same Element is working with Firefox, IE9 and Chrome.

Code is :

      global driver driver=webdriver.Ie()


   driver.get("http://www.google.co.in/")

   driver.find_element_by_id("gbqfba")

Thanks In Advanced...