Enter value in input text box in Selenium

Selenium Python - Enter value in input text field

In this tutorial, you will learn how to enter a value in an input text field in Selenium Python.

To enter a value in an input text field in Selenium Python, you can call send_keys() method on the WebElement object, and pass the required value you want to input in the text field as argument.

Steps to enter value in input text field

  1. Find the input text field element in the web page using driver.find_element() method.
  2. Call send_keys() method on the input text field element, and pass the value that we want to enter in the input text field, as argument.
input_text_element.send_keys("Ram")

Example

In the following example, we initialize a Chrome webdriver, navigate to a specific URL that contains a form element with a couple of input text fields, take the screenshot, enter a value in the input text field whose id is "fname", and then take the screenshot again.

Python Program

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

# Setup chrome driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
driver.set_window_size(500, 500)

# Navigate to the url
driver.get('/tmp/selenium/index-37.html')

# Find input text field
input_text_fname = driver.find_element(By.ID, 'fname')

# Take a screenshot before entering a value
driver.save_screenshot("screenshot-1.png")

# Enter a value in the input text field
input_text_fname.send_keys("Ram")

# Take a screenshot after entering a value
driver.save_screenshot("screenshot-2.png")

# Close the driver
driver.quit()

HTML File

The HTML file at URL: /tmp/selenium/index-37.html

<html>
 <body>
  <h3>My Form</h3>
  <form action="">
    <label for="fname">First name:</label>
    <input type="text" id="fname" name="fname"><br><br>
    <label for="lname">Last name:</label>
    <input type="text" id="lname" name="lname"><br><br>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
  </form>
 </body>
</html>

screenshot-1.png

Selenium Python - Enter value in input text box - Example

screenshot-2.png

Selenium Python - Enter value in input text box

Summary

In this Python Selenium tutorial, we have given instructions on how to enter a value in an input text field, using send_keys() method.