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Clicking an element on an overlay table using Python Selenium?

I am trying to create a workaround to click the first element in a table on a website that has an overlay table. The xpath does not appear to be related to the iframe, but I do not HTML.
The text does not link anywhere, but when clicked, it goes away and I can continue using the webpage.
The for loop goes through and searches vin numbers and gets prices, but some vins, for some odd reason are shared by the same vehicle with different trims. I am not comfortable sharing the table, but to describe it visually, it grays out the background, similar to a cookie alert and has entries representing the different clickable trims.
The code for detail.
for j in range(0,len(vins)):
try:
normal loop
except:
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div[3]/table/tbody/tr[1]/td[1]').click()
Error from query is InvalidArgumentException: invalid argument: invalid locator

How to click the Continue button on website using selenium in python?

I am trying to write a code that is able to auto apply on job openings on indeed.com. I have managed to reach the last stage, however, the final click on the application form is giving me a lot of trouble. Please refer the page as below
Once logged in to my profile, I go to the relevant search page, click on the listing I am interested in and then on the final page (shown above) I am trying to click on the continue button using xpath as follows:
driver.get("https://in.indeed.com/jobs?q=data%20analyst&l=Delhi&vjk=5c0bd416675cf4e5")
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="apply-button-container"]/div[1]/span[1]').click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="form-action-continue"]')
However, this gives me an error:
Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[#id="form-action-continue"]"}
Having gone through some suggestions on the net I have even tried the following:
driver.get("https://in.indeed.com/jobs?q=data%20analyst&l=Delhi&vjk=5c0bd416675cf4e5")
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="apply-button-container"]/div[1]/span[1]').click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[#id="form-action-continue"]')))
But then this gives me a timeout error
TimeoutException: Message:
Will appreciate some help on this.

From it seems, on that form there are multiple iframes, therefore the reason for your errors.
You need to get the first iframe, switch to it, get the second iframe inside the first one, switch to it and only afterwards you'll be able to get the continue button.
Something like this should do the trick:
frame_1 = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('iframe[title="Job application form container"')
driver.switch_to.frame(frame_1)
frame_2 = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('iframe[title="Job application form"]')
driver.switch_to.frame(frame_2)
continue_btn = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#form-action-continue')
continue_btn.click()

Once I had a similar issue and standard time.sleep() until the form (or continue button) appears helped me. Try it instead of WebDriverWait, maybe it will work.

With selenium on python don't know how to shut down a banner which is preventing selenium from accessing the page content

I'm trying to open a site with Selenium (with Python) using Chrome browser, but when I do, a full screen promo banner immediately pops-up and I can't access the site content unless I close it.
On the top right there is an "x" as if it was a quit button, but actually it's an element ::before
and from its description it seems to me that it doesn't contain any button element.
If I operate manually, both clicking on the x and on the upper part of the page outside the banner, the latter closes, but I really don't understand how to access it with selenium.
The webpage I'm trying to open is https://sports.bwin.it/it/sports
Needless to say I'm quite inexperienced, so I hope this question won't sound too basic, but I wasn't able to find a solutione in the selenium docs or on the web; if someone could give me any hint I would appreciate it.
This is a screenshot from the page I'm talking about
This is part of the html code from the web page; the element I am talking about is the one pointed by the arrow;

Based on your screen shot the xpath you want to use would be something like this:
//*[#data-id='dj_sports_c_ovl_br']//span
full code would be something like this:
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(
EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[#data-id='dj_sports_c_ovl_br']//span"))
)
element.click();

selenium.common.exceptions.StaleElementReferenceException: Message: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page

driver.get("https://www.zacks.com/")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#id='search-q']")
i am trying to find search box on zacks website with selenium but I am getting StaleElementReferenceException

The reason why you're getting this error is simply, the element has been removed from the DOM. There are several reasons for this:
The page itself is destroying/recreating the element on the fly, maybe even rapidly.
Parts of the page have been updated (replaced), but you're still having and old reference.
You navigate to a new page but holding an old reference.
To avoid this, try to keep the element reference as short as possible. If the content is rapidly changing, make the operation directly without the round trip to the client, via javascript:
driver.executeScript("document.getElementById('serach-q').click();");

Maybe you're trying to find while the page and this exact search box are loading. Try to implement wait mechanism for this element, smth like that:
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, timeoutInSeconds);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(locator));

Why does trying to click with selenium brings up "ElementNotInteractableException"?

I'm trying to click on the webpage "https://2018.navalny.com/hq/arkhangelsk/" from the website's main page. However, I get this error
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message:
There's nothing after "Message:"
My code
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('https://2018.navalny.com/')
time.sleep(5)
linkElem = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(#href,'arkhangelsk')]")
type(linkElem)
linkElem.click()
I think xpath is necessary for me because, ultimately, my goal is to click not on a single link but on 80 links on this webpage. I've already managed to print all the relevant links using this :
driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//a[contains(#href,'hq')]")
However, for starters, I'm trying to make it click at least a single link.
Thanks for your help,

The best way to figure out issues like this, is to look at the page source using developer tools of your preferred browser. For instance, when I go to this page and look at HTML tab of the Firebug, and look for //a[contains(#href,'arkhangelsk')] I see this:
So the link is located within div, which is currently not visible (in fact entire sub-section starting from div with id="hqList" is hidden). Selenium will not allow you to click on invisible elements, although it will allow you to inspect them. Hence getting element works, clicking on it - does not.
What you do with it depends on what your expectations are. In this particular case it looks like you need to click on <label class="branches-map__toggle-label" for="branchesToggle">Список</label> to get that link visible. So add this:
browser.find_element_by_link_text("Список").click();
after that you can click on any links in the list.