how do I get around this error 'webelement does not support indexing"[webdriver][python]

Question

I am doing an xpath search

page = driver.find_element_by_xpath(\'//td[@class=\"mceIframeContainer mceFirst mceLast\"]\')[1]

This gives me t

Answer 1

Like most of the Selenium WebDriver bindings, if you only specify "element", you will only return the first found element. However, if you specify "elements" in your method, it will return an array of elements found.

So your code should be:

page = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//td[@class="mceIframeContainer mceFirst mceLast"]')[1]

See http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/py/webdriver_remote/selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver.html?highlight=find_element_by_xpath#selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver.WebDriver.find_elements_by_xpath

Answer 2

the [1] needs to be added in part of the string

for example for a bunch of identical forms on a webpage, the first xpath might be

/html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[1]/td[2]/input

and the second would be

/html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[2]/input

OR you might be able to use find_elements_by_xpath instead, and then they could be indexable thats find_element***s***_by_xpath with an S