submit() element method – Selenium Python
Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provides a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. To open a webpage using Selenium Python, checkout – Navigating links using get method – Selenium Python. Just being able to go to places isn’t terribly useful. What we’d really like to do is to interact with the pages, or, more specifically, the HTML elements within a page. There are multiple strategies to find an element using Selenium, checkout – Locating Strategies
This article revolves around how to use submit
method in Selenium. submit
method is used to submit a form after you have sent data to a form.
Syntax –
element.submit()
Example –
< input type = "text" name = "passwd" id = "passwd-id" />
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To find an element one needs to use one of the locating strategies, For example,
element = driver.find_element_by_id("passwd-id")
element = driver.find_element_by_name("passwd")
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='passwd-id']")
Also, to find multiple elements, we can use –
elements = driver.find_elements_by_name("passwd")
To enter text into a field, for example,
element.send_keys("some text")
Now one can submit this search with
element.submit()
How to use submit element method in Selenium Python ?
Let’s try to enter text in search field on geeksforgeeks and then submit its contents.
Program –
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
element = driver.find_element_by_id( "gsc-i-id2" )
element.send_keys( "Arrays" )
element.submit()
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Output-
Last Updated :
27 Apr, 2020
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