[🐛 Bug]: FIND_ELEMENT command return a dict object value

[VladimirPodolian]

What happened?

I was updated my selenium version to 4.0.0 from 3.141.0. After that webdriver.find_element() returns dict value, but WebElement is expected in that case. Bug reproduced with attached code in 4.0.0 and not relevant for 3.141.0 version.

In images you can review the difference in that versions for return of webdriver.find_element()

How can we reproduce the issue?

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.webdriver import WebDriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

if __name__ == '__main__':
    driver = WebDriver()
    driver.get('https://www.selenium.dev/')
    element = driver.find_element(by=By.CSS_SELECTOR, value='input[type=search]')
    element.click()

Relevant log output

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "PycharmProjects/selenium_bug/main.py", line 8, in <module>
    element.click()
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'click'

Operating System

MacOS Big Sur

Selenium version

4.0.0

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome 94.0.4606.81

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

ChromeDriver 94.0.4606.61

Are you using Selenium Grid?

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[AutomatedTester]

davidburns in ~/development/selenium on trunk ● λ python3
Python 3.9.4 (default, Apr  5 2021, 01:50:46) 
[Clang 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.29)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from selenium import webdriver
>>> driver = webdriver.Chrome()
>>> driver.get('https://www.selenium.dev/')
>>> from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
>>> element = driver.find_element(by=By.CSS_SELECTOR, value='input[type=search]')
>>> element.click()
>>> webdriver.__version__
'4.0.0'

This seems to work for me.

[VladimirPodolian]

@AutomatedTester Your proposal also not works for me

(Pdb) element.click()
*** AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'click'
(Pdb) element
{'ELEMENT': '0.6220019529147716-1'}
(Pdb) webdriver.__version__
'4.0.0'

[AutomatedTester]

it looks like you're connecting to a very old version of Chromedriver, it seems to be returning a the wrong shaped object. What version of chromedriver are you using?

[VladimirPodolian]

@AutomatedTester Yeah, you right. I downloaded the latest chromedriver and everything is fine after that. I don't know why it's reproduced in project where i'm working. Mb due to webdriver_manager (Note: driver version is normal in driver.capabilities, but issue still reproduced) that we using. Sorry for issue

[AutomatedTester]

no worries, glad we got it sorted!

[lucielavickova-tesena]

hello, I am having the same issue as @VladimirPodolyan, but I need to stick to the chromedriver v93 due to the test environment where is chrome v93 installed... is there a way how to proceed anyway?

[VladimirPodolian]

I was figured it out. It's caused due to using and passing chrome_options.add_experimental_option('w3c', False) into driver instance as options arg. @lucielavickova-tesena May bee you need to delete this option for success passing in your driver version

[dakshamdev]

Same issue, Just migrated back to the previous version and it worked fine, seems like it is only in the Chrome Driver Part

[fenchu]

I have the same issue: chrome v95,v96, edge v96,v97 Selenium v4.0.0 with python v3.10.0, not in v3.9.7:

chrome v95:

tests\test_08_idproofing_no.py:152: in test02_idproofing
    shadow_root.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "span#lang-icon")[0].click()
E   AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'find_elements'

shadow_root:{'ELEMENT': '0.06690798850173985-2'}

msedge v97:

same error:
shadow_root:{'shadow-6066-11e4-a52e-4f735466cecf': '0.4818716171357742-2'}

To get shadow-root I execute the javascript:

def expand_shadow_element(driver, el, jstype='shadowRoot'):
    """ expand shadow root """
    shadow_root = driver.execute_script(f"return arguments[0].{jstype}", el)
    return shadow_root

chrome_options.add_experimental_option('w3c', False) does not matter

[skripnik-bogdan]

@VladimirPodolyan Thank you. I have got the same issue with next environment:

• ChromeDriver 95.0.4638.17
• Selenium 4.0.0

Tried to experiment with "chrome driver" options and when I disabled
options.add_experimental_option('w3c', False)
method find_element(By.XPATH, "") again return {WebElement} instead of {dict} and method click()works as usual.

[FranciscoPalomares]

Hi, I have same problems with 'version': '96.0.4664.45' return dict element with remote webdriver

[NickAJScott]

Yup having the same issue here, but we arn't using the w3c option. Will try updating chrome drivers and see if that helps

[FranciscoPalomares]

I have problems with remote chromium version: 98.0.4727.0

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