I've been searching a week how check if a checkbox is checked in Selenium WebDriver with Python, but I find only algorithms from JAVA. I've read the WebDriver docs and it doesn't have an answer for that.
Anyone have a solution?
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There is a WebElement property called is_selected(), and for a check box this indicates whether or not it is checked. Therefore you can verify if it is checked/unchecked by doing something like this:
driver.find_element_by_name('<check_box_name>').is_selected()
or
driver.find_element_by_id('<check_box_id>').is_selected()
I remember having the same issue not being able to find documentation. It's easier to find once you know the name (here are some docs, is_selected is towards the bottom), but the way I have gone about trying to find different options/properties for Selenium objects is to just drop dir(some_object) in the code and see what options come up (this is how is_selected appeared).
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j413254
Thanks for this. If you find that a checkbox is "checked" and you want to change it to "unchecked", how would this be done?
I'm using driver.find_element_by_name("< check_box_name >").is_selected()
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greybeard
How does this differ from the first alternative in RocketDonkey's 2013/01 answer?
I found another way that works, but using javascript inside.
def is_checked(self, driver, item_id):
checked = driver.execute_script(
f"return document.getElementById('{item_id}').checked"
)
return checked
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agreed = driver.find_element_by_id("checkBoxAgreed")
if agreed.get_attribute("checked") != "true":
agreed.click()
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WebElement checkbox = driver.findElement(By.id("checkboxId"))
(or)
checkbox = self.driver.find_element_by_css_selector(checkboxSelector)
, then
if checkbox.isSelected():
print 'Checkbox is selected'
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greybeard
The first alternative looks entirely similar to one in RocketDonkey's 2013 answer.
HDubz
Replace
isSelected with is_selected because in the selenium python api the function name is snake cased. I would make the edit but the SO rules prohibit edits that are less than 6 characters.when the checkbox is unchecked, the xpath or id is different than when it is checked which means, then while finding the element,we need to
find some common text that is present in the xpath in both checked and unchecked condition
use it to locate the object
then compare the xpath of checked checkbox and unchecked checkbox
if (xpath of checked checkbox): pass else: chkbox.click()
please see this video it will give u an idea
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def assert_checkbox_status (id, expect):
global browser
field = browser.find_element_by_id(id)
assert field.get_attribute ('checked')== expect
Example of use:
assert_checkbox('activate', True) ==> assert if checkbox is checked
assert_checkbox('activate', None) ==> assert if checkbox is unchecked
