Filling out “First Name” field of a signup page

Question

Problem i\'m currently having is trying to fill out the First Name field out of a sign up page. I\'ve managed to fill out the email name, and select the gender

Answer 1

The desired element is an dynamic element so to fill out the First Name field you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  driver.get("https://www.mail.com/")
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a#signup-button"))).click()
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[data-test='first-name-input']"))).send_keys("live for the hunt")
  

• Using XPATH:

  driver.get("https://www.mail.com/")
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@id='signup-button']"))).click()
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@data-test='first-name-input']"))).send_keys("live for the hunt")
  

• 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
  

• Browser Snapshot: