i, unfortunately, I can’t post the code to reproduce this problem, because it involves signing up to a site that is not a public site. but my question is more general than code issues. essentially driver.page_sourcedoes not match what is displayed in the browser that it controls. this is not a problem with elements that do not load completely, because I am testing this by executing code line by line in a python terminal. I look at the page source in the browser after right-clicking and go to "view page source", but if I print driver.page_sourceor try find_element_by_[...], it shows a slightly different code with missing whole elements. here is the html:
<nav role="navigation" class="utility-nav__wrapper--right">
<input id="hdn_partyId" value="1965629" type="hidden">
<input id="hdn_firstName" value="CHARLES" type="hidden">
<input id="hdn_sessionId" value="uHxQhlARvzA7N16uh+KJAdNFIcY6D8f9ornqoPQ" type="hidden">
<input id="hdn_cmsAlertRequest" type="hidden" value="Biennial Plus">
<ul class="h-list h-list--middle">
[...]
</ul>
I need all 4 input element, but the elements hdn_partyIdand hdn_sessionIddo not appear in selenium .page_source, and if I try to get them through .find_element_by_[...], I get aNoSuchElementException
I even checked the check of all the elements inputand listed them, and these 2 did not appear.
Can anyone think why selenium will not provide the same content as direct browsing of the browser that it controls?
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