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How to select the Email or Phone field within Google Login Page with Selenium and xpath?

I am on this page: Google Drive Login
Wanting to select this input field:
The input field in question

When I use the xpath of the input field:

//*[@id="identifierId"]

or

/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div/form/span/section/div/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/input

I get nada.

Normally this happens when an element is nested within an iframe but not in this case. Or at least I couldn't find the iframe in question. Please help me understand why.

Solution

  • The Email or Phone field while accessing Google Drive login page is no different from the Email or Phone field during GMail login.

    To send a character sequence to the element you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

    • Using id:

      driver.find_element_by_id("identifierId").send_keys("AturSams")

    • Using css_selector:

      driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input#identifierId").send_keys("AturSams")

    • Using xpath:

      driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='identifierId']").send_keys("AturSams")

    Ideally, to send a character sequence to the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

    • Using ID:

      WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "identifierId"))).send_keys("AturSams")

    • Using CSS_SELECTOR:

      WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input#identifierId"))).send_keys("AturSams")

    • Using XPATH:

      WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@id='identifierId']"))).send_keys("AturSams")

    • 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

    References

    You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in: