How to submit Web Page Form with Selenium WebDriver in Python?

You can follow this tutorial to enter input data and submit a Web page form with Selenium WebDriver.

Several methods from Selenium WebDriver classes will be used:

• driver.find_element_by_tag_name() - Searches and returns the first HTML element that matches the given tag name within the loaded Web page.
• element.find_element_by_name() - Searches and returns the first HTML element that matches the given name within the this element.
• input.send_keys() - Simulates a user typing data into an INPUT element of a FORM element.
• form.submit() - Submits the FORM element to the Website.
• form.current_url - The current URL of this Web page.

1. Enter the following program, FormSubmit.py:

# FormSubmit.py
# Copyright (c) FYIcenter.com 
from selenium.webdriver import Chrome
import time

driver = Chrome()
driver.get("http://sqa.fyicenter.com")

# get the first "form" element in the page
form = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("form")

# get the input element of the form.
query = form.find_element_by_name("Q")
query.send_keys("selenium")

# submit form
form.submit()
url = driver.current_url

print("Test Case - Submit a search:")
print("   Actual Value: "+url)
print("   Expected Value: ..Q=selenium...")
if (url.endswith("Q=selenium")):
   print("   Test Result: Passed")
else:
   print("   Test Result: Failed")

# pause for 1 minute before closing
time.sleep(60)
driver.quit()

2. Compile and run it with the Selenium Client JAR file.

C:\fyicenter>python FormSubmit.py

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:60370/devtools/browser/...
Test Case - Submit a search:
   Actual Value: http://sqa.fyicenter.com/index.php?Q=selenium
   Expected Value: ..Q=selenium...
   Test Result: Passed

As you can see, we are able to enter a search criteria and submit the FORM element without any problem with Chrome WebDriver.

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