How to handle hidden webelements in Selenium Webdriver

[@VikasJadhavgoogleprofile]

Hi Mukesh, In above video, there are 2 elements for male Radio buttons. 1st element is Hidden and second one is visible for male radio button. 1st Elements x and y both co-ordinates are 0 that it means its hidden ,but second element having some positive co-ordinates right? Then in this video, In for loop is selecting 2nd Element which are not hidden. Then can you please let me know can we select hidden elements or not? Please clear on this...!!!

[@danrathore8128]

very detailed and organized content with concise explanation, keep up the good work sir! you rock.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks dan I am glad it helped you. Happy Weekend.

[@arunab1624]

Hi Mukesh, your vedios are awesome. very very useful for me.Thanks a lot........

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Aruna keep learning.

[@vaibhavrastogi8207]

thanks mukesh...for uploading such a informative video

[@Mukeshotwani]

+Vaibhav Rastogi thanks Vaibhav

[@stephenrajvlogs4275]

Hi Mukesh.. Thanks for your useful videos. One thing i am little concerned about that most of the videos are shuffled.. Is there a way that it is one after the other sequentially ? I am not sure whether only i am facing this. Please suggest.

[@NeoNeoza]

Hi Mukesh, I am trying to write a code for a website and the elements have static xpaths but sometimes the elements can be found and sometimes i get "no such element: Unable to locate element" . I have implemented the Implicit wait but still it does not seem to be working . Please note i have tried locating elements using xpath or id or name but i am still getting the same issue.

[@vr5322]

useful content. Please upload the second part of the video for dynamic radio button selection. gr8 work mukesh

[@Mukeshotwani]

Yes Vikas will upload by Tuesday :)

[@WearASmileWithUs]

Hi mukesh.. many thanks to u..you are perfect mentor..you just clear each and every topic so nicely. Thanks once again for uploading videos for almost every issue that we face. i m really a big fan of u.

[@Planify]

Couldn't find the link to see the other 3 methods mentioned in Video. Tried searching ur website with hidden elements post. Didn't get it.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi it seems that post is deleted now. You can write program from your side and let me know if any issue.

[@prithvi007]

Thanks Mukesh..this is really helpful...when is your second video coming?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Here we go kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4LYZqWHeLWmkLc

[@rabiaminoie6508]

hi mukesh , how are you , i have a question : if i have the attributes to locate the child tag but i want the parent tag which doesn’t have any attribute to use , how to locate

[@786shimu]

Thanks so much Mukesh . As always , I follow your videos .They are very Very helpful.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Mate keep watching..Let me know if any help

[@786shimu]

hi Mukesh it's sadia.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Sadia I saw different name so got confused ;) Hope last solution worked which we discussed yesterday

[@karanjain24]

Hi Mukesh, i am unable to select an item from the list. I created a list of webElements and using advanced for loop, iterated for all the items present. while i was able to print the name of the elements (using getText() method), i also wanted to select one of these elements. but it wont enter into the if loop. Following is the code i used: for(WebElement el : list0{ if(el.getText().equalsIgnoreCase("Browse"){ driver.findElement(By.xpath("").click(); System.out.println("if loop"); } else System.out.println("else loop") } when i run this, it doesn't go into the 'if' loop. I printed the list item names and supplied the same in the expected section of the 'if' loop. Yet it is not entering the loop. instead it prints "else loop" in the output window, only once. Please help.

[@hkharikrishna62]

Hi, do you have any idea about the hidden elements (pseudo) like ::before and ::after. How I can know if element like ::after exists?......I just need to return true or false if ::after is present in the element.

[@vidyasinha5362]

Hi Mukesh,Please upload the part 2 of this video ....how to pass the dynamic elements

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Vidya, will upload on Tuesday.

[@ramniwasverma9853]

Nice video Sir, You mentioned there are more ways to do this, could let me know the link to watch the other ways also.

[@GuptaRaghunandan]

hey mukesh can you upload a video for SVN tutorial.How Testers use this tool?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Raghu, yes will try my best to upload soon.

[@shabbirkhan9411]

Hello Mukesh, I am looking for other option how to handle ElementsNotVisible exception? Could you please send the link? Thank you .

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Shabbir here is the link for solutions learn-automation.com/solve-elementnotvisibleexception-in-selenium-webdriver/

[@kathelynas6474]

Hi muskesh. i tried every way to click on radio button in one application. but every time it is saying that Element is not displayed. i tried your way for handling hidden elements. please help here. need your advice. the Element is Enable and Displayed when tried with isEnable() and isDisplay() actions.

[@Usa4evaeva]

Mukesh, why my firefox doesnt firepath like u have?- ive firepath addon on the latest version firefox. Which version do u use?

[@halabadr2571]

you can use firefox 49 or 50

[@sidheshlotlikar9002]

Hi Mukesh, Did you remove next video? I see this video was created in 2016, now at end of video when you say few things that you will cover in next video and the next video in this playlist is about sending emails.

[@akulabhaskar3797]

So Mukesh every Webelement has x and Y coordinate ?I never came across such .

[@manishpalboaddh4855]

Thanks for the video Mukesh. I was trying to catch one tool tip but not able to catch it. This displayed upon click on a webelement, best example is when we create gmail account and click on email field then one message is displayed that "You can use....". Can you please explain how i can catch this?

[@DrumDrumDrummerDrum]

Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I didn't finish it because I'm trying to solve this like now, you know what I mean, and you gave me the answer by minute 12. I definitely need to finish this video later. Subscribed!

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Kyle 🤗

[@andrewleonidas1721]

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[@benjay5655]

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[@andrewleonidas1721]

@Ben Jay thanks for your reply. I got to the site through google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

[@andrewleonidas1721]

@Ben Jay it worked and I finally got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D Thank you so much, you saved my account :D

[@sugandikaliyanage3886]

HI Mukesh. how do you handle radio buttons and other elements inside a DIV.. but using selenium and python. please help

[@sahithikolisetti5575]

great job... Thank you mukesh

[@Mukeshotwani]

Welcome Sahithi. Keep visiting.

[@vinayvatsav5850]

Hello Mukesh...I'm following your all selenium videos and they are very useful for me. Can you help me out how to handle Java applet menu using webdriver. I have tried Robot class and its methods. It won't help. I'm very glad if you help out Thanks in advance Vinay

[@Mukeshotwani]

Any demo or sample app?

[@vinayvatsav5850]

Actually I'm working on my Project.I have no any demo project on that and app also

[@Mukeshotwani]

ok

[@olenarogalska888]

Thanks for super useful video! Looking forward to watch next one!

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Olena, Thanks a ton :) yes will upload more on this weekend.Have you checked kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6HTYa15jZWFaZY

[@adilraza6108]

Hi mukesh..i am following you since last year. Would you please make a video on performing action on elements present in SHADOW DOM . I have a case where i need to click on Cancel button on CHROME PRINT PREVIEW window. Thanks Again.

[@balazsio]

Thank you Sir, I think I will watch your other videos as well!

[@Mukeshotwani]

Most welcome 🙏

[@nekkantivenkateswararao1386]

Sir what is meant by x axis,and y axis,and what is the use of get x() and get y() methods

[@Mukeshotwani]

x, y coordinates are respectively the horizontal and vertical addresses of any pixel or addressable point on a computer display screen. If x and y is negative it means it is not displayed on screen.

[@nekkantivenkateswararao1386]

@@Mukeshotwani ok sir,tanq very much sir

[@vijayendranvijay4538]

@@Mukeshotwani in my case, I have to click on No radio button for all 15 questions.. But in the current Web page view only 4 questions are visible and so its not selecting remaining questions unless I scroll down.. Will this solution work?? Pls help.. I am stuck with this.. I have already written dynamic xpath

[@rawatrjit]

Hi Mukesh.. I am trying to locate an element but it is giving me "Element not visible" error. When I tried to find out the X and Y coordinate it is giving me the value for them but while trying to click on it, it is giving the same error saying "element not visible". Can you please help in resolving the issue.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Check if element is within frame then switch to frame learn-automation.com/handle-frames-in-selenium/

[@rawatrjit]

I does not exist under frame. The element comes under something like ::before and ::after. Below is the html syntax: Are you sure on Deleting Indicator: AGE_ON_NETWORK_LifeTime ? ::before Cancel OK ::after I want to click on Cancel and OK button but it always says element not visible. And this small popup/alert/warning sort of window opens when I click on some button. If I am not wrong then it is not in frame.

[@nikhiljadhavkennovation4668]

It helped a lot ! Thanks Mukesh.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Welcome Nikhil

[@abishekkachroo938]

I need help in solving the particular issue how to bypass clicking the webelement if webelement is not present in selenium Suppose if(ele.isDisplayed){ //ele is the webelement ele.click(); } In this case if ele is not displayed , then selenium will continue on searching the element I have also used if(ele.isDisplayed== true){ ele.click(); } but no use

[@ankitsaxenamusic]

Put something in else block. So if it didn't click at the first attempt it will go to else block.

[@abhilashadeshpande7996]

Hi mukesh, Thank you for such amazing topic. Can you pls share me the link where you mentioned other ways to handle element not visible exception that u were saying in this video. Also I would be helpful if you share your link of selenium blogs.. Thanks a million.

[@rohitbhatt9714]

too good!!, thanks Mukesh.... can you please put some videos on interview questions, that you have come across your testing career... Thanks again :)

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Rohit Kindly check come videos from below link too learn-automation.usefedora.com/courses/selenium-frameworks-and-selenium-question-answers

[@sureshisoft4555]

@@Mukeshotwani Thanks Mukesh.. Waiting for this FAQ...

[@geekysantosh]

hello, how you are able to run the script without a web driver location path?

[@archanajain4913]

Hi Mukesh, I am trying to automate google account creation page but for the field 'Month' in Birthday section i am getting following error when trying to select month:-- Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.UnexpectedTagNameException: Element should have been "select" but was "span" Can you please guide me how to handle this ?Thanks in Advance

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Archana this is not select tag so select class will not work. Try using below approach learn-automation.com/handle-bootstrap-dropdown-in-selenium-webdriver/

[@archanajain4913]

Hi Mukesh, Thanks for the answer. I tried the solution but getting the list size as 0 :( below is my code:- WebElement dropdown= driver.findElement(By.id("BirthMonth")); dropdown.click(); List list = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//span [@class=' form-error']//div[@class='goog-menu goog-menu-vertical']//div[@class='goog-menuitem']//div[@class='goog-menuitem-content']")); System.out.println(list.size()); In chrome when i paste the above xpath it shows 12 element but in selenium it shows the list size as 0. Can you please let me know where m wrong.

[@archanajain4913]

thanks Mukesh :)

[@anithkumar305]

Hi Sir, I have two scroll bars, 1 is hidden. How to select the visible scroll bar. I have written ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("scroll(0,500)"); its always executing hidden scroll bar.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Anith, use x,y cordinate to check element presence.

[@anithkumar305]

Thanks Sir

[@vipintekade6400]

Hi Mukesh can you share me how to find hidden webelements in Selenium Webdriver ? as i am unable to find and it is also not available in describtion link .

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Vipin, there is not locator to find hidden element so you need to write custom xpath which will search all hidden webelements. Do you have any sample application where you have hidden elements so that I can send some code for the same

[@kundankotangale5036]

please one video for dyanmic form field(adding or removing) row in Selenium testing please one video create on this dynamic form field

[@Mukeshotwani]

Sure Kundan I will try to make video on this soon.

[@kundankotangale5036]

@@Mukeshotwani Thanks for the update.

[@vishalregister655]

I am getting, element not interactable exception, while commeting on youtube video using selenium webdriver(Java )

[@mohammadrasheed8402]

when we try to generate xpath form Firepath, why does it start with .(dot) operator while when we try to write dynamic xpath, we don't use .(dot ) operator?

[@Mukeshotwani]

you can ignore dot operator it won't make any difference.

[@mohammadrasheed8402]

Mukesh otwani yes it works without dot operator but I just want to know what is the significance of using this dot operator?

[@StreamCorner]

I hope it implies a start from current node.

[@monathakur3916]

Hi Mukesh... this is the first time when i checked your videos and i m really in love with the way u explained every points... i want a favour if possible please upload videos for java also.. it will be so kind of you. Thankyou

[@ankitsaxenamusic]

You can refer Naveen Reddy for Java from telusko learnings. He is incredible and explained everything in a detailed manner. Hope it helps

[@mosharofsujan4381]

Hi mukesh. Your tutorials very helpful. I am trying to select an option from drop-down list and getting the exception "ElementNotVisibleException" . Here is my HTML code: " Assured* --Select-- Hafizur Rahman Masudur Rahman " Please help me how I can select an option.

[@abhishek.bansal05]

Can we do it with executing Javascript Executor

[@johndoe-lz8fo]

how can i select an element if there are no id, name or any of the element finders?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi John, in that case you need to use XPath or Css Selector.

[@ppk24]

Request you to please explain how to locating elements in shadow DOM using selenium *python*. Thank you Mukesh..!!

[@abdulkadirmete1198]

can I use this for android ?

[@ashikalimaner]

Hi Mukesh, Can't we can make xpath so that it will click second button?Please reply

[@StreamCorner]

I think we cant do it directly because they have hidden the elements to fetch out. This is a only way to fetch the hidden webelements.

[@prudhvikumar3920]

Hi sir, What is selenium web Driver page object generator using chrome Extension.. how to use it and why? can u share the video pls......

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Prudhvi, it is not that usefull but will try my best to upload on this too. In the mean while you can check my POM video for more details.

[@StreamCorner]

What happens if we choose getY(); Actually i want to know the difference between X and Y points. Anyone knows kindly reply.

[@Mukeshotwani]

It will work for both.

[@StreamCorner]

Ya i tried it and its awesome mukesh.. Thanx a lot..

[@randomviewer9198]

Great content...I started learning from your channel recently. Can you do a video on accessing elements inside a shadow-root(shadow DOM)?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Great suggestion! I will try to record soon.

[@MusiQ8dict]

i did learned it recently. buzz me

[@sarithareddy5610]

If x-path is changing how to handle situation?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Saritha xpath changes when id or some other attributes changes so you can try writing dynamic xpath which make script more stable. learn-automation.com/how-to-write-dynamic-xpath-in-selenium/

[@nekkantivenkateswararao1386]

What is meant by debug mode

[@Mukeshotwani]

Debug means you can see executed step by step with all variables and other values.

[@nekkantivenkateswararao1386]

@@Mukeshotwani tanq sir

[@AbhishekSharma-pw3ep]

Why can't you use (xpath) [2] to get second element without hidden attribute

[@Mukeshotwani]

Yes Abhishek you can do that but video explains how to handle via Code.

[@AbhishekSharma-pw3ep]

@@Mukeshotwani thanks.. I am also learning selenium from your channel

[@jyotibaviskar6282]

What if I have 10 webelements with same 10, if I write xpath it highlight 10 elements. Only I'd is available to use. No other attribute is available. How can I get 2 nd elements. (How can I click on any perticular element) It will by default click 1st but I want to click on some other how to do that

[@AnilChTechChannel]

(xpath-locator)[2] for 2nd element. If you are sure that 2nd element is always in that 2nd position.

[@pradoshjena1782]

I am facing issue to handle HTML shadow DOM webelement using selenium WebDriver. Please help me...

[@banglazone9552]

Please help!! How to locate '::before' element?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Mate, Any example for this?

[@banglazone9552]

Yes, if i inspect a specific element, it show like this. What will be the xpath?

[@prathushaprakash733]

were you able to figure it out? Pleaes help@@banglazone9552

[@sanjaykumar-wi9xv]

Element not interactable exception could not be scrolled into view how to handle it please sir solve it. I am facing problem in my project

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Sanjay, I have discussed about this interactable exception in below video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2mce2aje9CeqdE

[@shubhampatil-ix9ju]

sir why we use if(x!=0)

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Shubham we are checking x is not equal to 0

[@shubhampatil-ix9ju]

@@Mukeshotwani ok sir that means if it is not equal to zero then whatever 1 st element comes it will select it

[@shubhampatil-ix9ju]

and sir what can we do if we want to select female radio button

[@shubhampatil-ix9ju]

thank you sir great work

[@yforyou1342]

Yes it's working for me. Thanks for teaching us.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Cheers Mate, I am glad it worked for you.

[@yforyou1342]

@@Mukeshotwani sir can you make a lesson on customised cssSelector. How to select a specific element when we have duplicate elements. Whithout using list.

[@danielcret6742]

where i can take source folder ?

[@rameshrongala922]

thank you so much.very good explanation

[@slayerofundead1]

Can you please add code for same Python

[@rohitjain4739]

try this Xpath -- //input[@id='male']//following-sibling::input[@id='male']

[@pradnyavelapurkar9905]

how to handle ConnectionFailedException?

[@yt-shorts-vlogs]

excellent

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@GoQuality]

Thanks champ

[@Mukeshotwani]

Welcome Santhosh

[@naveenreddy7044]

how to get text from hidden elements

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Naveen you can use getAttribute method

[@towhidskynet]

5:30 - 8:15

[@shyamprasad7259]

TNX SAVED MY DATA

[@Bujji28243]

Hi Mukesh, your vedios are awesome. very very useful for me.Thanks a lot........