Selenium Python – Get the selected radio button
In this tutorial, you will learn how to get the selected radio button in a group of related radio buttons using Selenium in Python.
To get the selected radio button in Selenium Python, find the radio button in the group which has been checked using XPath expression. Once you’ve located the selected radio button, you can get the value of the radio button.
In the following code snippet, we get the selected radio button from a radio buttons group with name 'radio-group-name' is
radio_button = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//input[@type='radio' and @name='radio-group-name' and @checked]")In the above XPath expression
//inputreturns all the elements with input tag.@type='radio'filters only those elements that are radio buttons.@name='radio-group-name'filters only those radio buttons whose name attribute has a value equal to'radio-group-name'.@checkedfurther filters only those radio buttons that are checked.driver.find_element()returns the first radio button from the filtered list.
You can get the value of the radio button using the following code.
selected_value = radio_button.get_attribute("value")Example
Consider the following HTML file index.html that has a radio group for selecting your favourite subject, and the radio button with value="Mathematics" has already been checked in the HTML using checked attribute.
index.html
<html>
<body>
<h3>My Favourite Subject</h3>
<form action="">
<input type="radio" id="physics" name="fav_subject" value="Physics">
<label for="physics">Physics</label><br>
<input type="radio" id="mathematics" name="fav_subject" value="Mathematics" checked>
<label for="mathematics">Mathematics</label><br>
<input type="radio" id="chemistry" name="fav_subject" value="Chemistry">
<label for="chemistry">Chemistry</label>
</form>
</body>
</html>
In the following program, we initialize a webdriver, navigate to a specific URL (index.html) that is running on a local server, and get the radio button with name equal to "fav_subject" and attribute checked. We shall print the value of the selected radio button to standard console output.
Python Program
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
# Setup chrome driver
service = ChromeService(executable_path=ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)
# Navigate to the url
driver.get('http://127.0.0.1:5500/index.html')
# Get the selected radio button
radio_button = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//input[@type='radio' and @name='fav_subject' and @checked]")
# Get the value of selected radio button
selected_value = radio_button.get_attribute("value")
print("Selected radio button :", selected_value)
# Close the driver
driver.quit()Output
Selected radio button : MathematicsSummary
In this Python Selenium tutorial, we have given instructions on how to get the selected radio button, and print its value, with an example.