HTML form - input elements using id tag cannot be reached

[nateshmbhat]

HTML form - input elements using id tag cannot be reached

[mohijarada2017]

test_python_example_sourcecodes.zip

Thanks Natesh. I already tried out with different HTML forms with name attribute or without, and your API does not catch the placeholder, for the targeted input field I would like to web automate it.

For HTML elements with id attribute, it's working perfectly.

There are a lot of projects with HTML forms without ID or NAME HTML attributes, then how webbot API will capture these?

Attached "test_python_example_sourcecodes.zip", which contains a sample example of Python (webbot_5_example_localhost_html_form_submission.py) HTML webbot auto form submission, using your API. Inside the zip file also:
a "test.html", where you can test HTML form with ID or without ID like using HTML input name attributes, as said before with HTML input ID attributes your API works perfectly and webbot web automation will work smoothly, but using HTML name attribute with your API 'into' does not capture the HTML input placeholder at all!!

#web.type(username_str, into = 'firstname')    
#web.type(userpwd_str, into = 'lastname')

then you can un-comment my code line Python two lines actually and you can run it under Python default HTTP web server:

python3.7 -m http.server

you can check it by yourself also.

[nateshmbhat]

the into parameter is used to specify the field text or placeholder that you see on the website , if it has an id , then specify the id directly using id parameter to the type method like so :

web.type('password_value', id='password_field_id')

if it doesn't have id , u can still give
web.type('password_value', into='Password')
since it has a placeholder called 'Password'

[nateshmbhat]

Thank u so much. I will definitely work on a fix for this