Python and Selenium To “execute_script” to solve “ElementNotVisibleException”

Question

I am using Selenium to save a webpage. The content of webpage will change once certain checkbox(s) are clicked. What I want is to click a checkbox then save the page content. (T

Answer 1

Alternative option would be to make the click() inside execute_script():

# wait for element to become present
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
checkbox = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, "keywords_here")))

driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", checkbox)

where EC is imported as:

from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

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Alternatively and as an another shot in the dark, you can use the element_to_be_clickable Expected Condition and perform the click in a usual way:

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
checkbox = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.NAME, "keywords_here")))

checkbox.click()