Help for beginners to find and hide an element, CSS classes

[Chunkst]

Hi, I'm new to SeleniumBase and I'm trying to automate a specific action. I don't understand much despite the documentation... I've managed to do what I wanted in terms of user actions, but now I'd like to hide a popup when a site opens. However, in spite of numerous attempts, it's impossible to retrieve the element with the CSS classes to hide it... Thanks in advance for your help

h=Driver()
h.get('https://a.random.url/')
u=h.find_element('button')
# for _ in username: _.style='display: none'
print(u)

[mdmintz]

Hello! Here's a sample script that hides various elements on a web page using the SB() format that has more methods than the Driver() format: (sleep() added so that you have time to see the difference).

from seleniumbase import SB

with SB() as sb:
    sb.open("https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_Eiffel")
    sb.sleep(1)
    sb.hide_elements("div#siteNotice")
    sb.sleep(1)
    sb.hide_elements("nav#mw-panel-toc")
    sb.sleep(1)
    sb.hide_elements('img[src*="Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia"]')
    sb.sleep(2)

To hide only the first matching selector found, use hide_element(selector) instead of hide_elements(selector).

For the full French experience, here's a SeleniumBase example using the French Language API: (Adds --demo to highlight elements)

from seleniumbase.translate.french import CasDeBase
CasDeBase.main(__name__, __file__, "--demo")

class MaClasseDeTest(CasDeBase):
    def test_exemple_1(self):
        self.ouvrir("https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/")
        self.vérifier_texte("Wikipédia")
        self.vérifier_élément('[alt="Wikipédia"]')
        self.js_taper("#searchform input", "Crème brûlée")
        self.cliquer("#searchform button")
        self.vérifier_texte("Crème brûlée", "#firstHeading")
        self.vérifier_élément('img[alt*="Crème brûlée"]')
        self.js_taper("#searchform input", "Jardin des Tuileries")
        self.cliquer("#searchform button")
        self.vérifier_texte("Jardin des Tuileries", "#firstHeading")
        self.vérifier_élément('img[alt*="Jardin des Tuileries"]')
        self.retour()
        self.vérifier_url_contient("brûlée")
        self.en_avant()
        self.vérifier_url_contient("Jardin")

Translations can be found in SeleniumBase/examples/translations.

All methods can be found here: SeleniumBase/help_docs/method_summary.md.

(The Driver()-specific methods are a smaller subset of that, at the bottom of the method_summary.md file.)

See SeleniumBase/examples for all examples.

[Chunkst]

in fact, my function is more complete than the one above and is recursive, repeating until it detects a keypress

[mdmintz]

SeleniumBase is a more advanced version of Selenium. You can call functions from the “with” block. With the “breakpoint()”, you can continue your script by typing “c” and pressing ENTER from the console.

[Chunkst]

Super bravo and thanks again! One last thing, what is the equivalent of switch_to.window for SB()?

[Chunkst]

Oh, and I still can't hide a single element despite numerous attempts... I've tested CSS selectors that worked for other methods like clicking... I don't understand why nothing works.

with SB() as h:
	x,y=lambda:h.close(),lambda m:h.sleep(m)
	h.open(f'https://a.random.url/{c[p]}/')
	h.hide_elements('input#email')

[mdmintz]

switch_to_window(1) will switch the window in SeleniumBase.

If your “input” element is in an iframe, you’ll need to switch into the iframe first. You can also call sb.driver to access driver methods.