finding a word in a read only box selenium and python -


<textarea id="value(orders21)" class="readonly" style="width: 98%;" readonly="readonly" rows="10" cols="20" name="value(orders21)">homebound reasons: needs assistance</textarea> 

hey guys showed on firebug in page working on.

i wondering how make condition tell me read text box contains word "homebound reasons:"

if "homebound reasons:" in driver.page_source():     print("it's there") else:     ("nope not here") 

this produces error (typeerror: 'str' object not callable)

how around this?

• first find element

• find text of

• logical comparison.

element = browser.find_element_by_id('value(orders21)')  if "homebound reasons:" in element.text:     print("it's there") else:     ("nope not here") 

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