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Finding out if a given selector (XPATH, ID or Whatever) is Enabled in Selenium

I just spent a whole day trying to figure out how to define if a given element (defined using an xpath) is an enabled (i.e. not disabled) element in "Selenese", using Python bindings.

Finally cracked it:

def is_element_enabled(self, element):
  script = """this.page().findElement("%s").disabled;"""
   
  script_return = self.selenium.get_eval(script % element)
  if script_return == "null":
  is_disabled = self.__get_attribute_value(element, "disabled")
  else:
  is_disabled = script_return[0].upper()=="T"
   
  return not is_disabled

I know it's not pretty but after that many hours I DON'T CARE! I'm hoping someone will come and say: "There's a much easier way of doing that. Just use xxx" and then I'll fix it. For the time being it stays.

BTW http://www.pyccuracy.org is up and running and Pyccuracy got it's 0.3.1 release already.

Cheers,

Published Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:43 AM by heynemann
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# re: Finding out if a given selector (XPATH, ID or Whatever) is Enabled in Selenium

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:26 AM by Simon Stewart

In webdriver (and selenium 2.0):

WebElement e = driver.findElement(By.id("foo"));

e.isEnabled();

Getting the value of the "disabled" attribute is the right way to go.

# re: Finding out if a given selector (XPATH, ID or Whatever) is Enabled in Selenium

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:55 AM by Bernardo Heynemann

Hey Simon! Thanks for the comment!

Yeah I tried getting the value of @disabled. It does not work at all times though :(

The code I'm using now works.

WebElement e = driver.findElement(By.id("foo"));

e.isEnabled();

that's java right?

How would I do that in the Python bindings?

Cheers,

Bernardo Heynemann

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