I'm trying to have click a button in the browser with Selenium and Python.
The button is within the following
<div id="generate">
<i class="fa fa-bolt"></i>
<span>Download Slides</span>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
Chrome's dev console tells me the button is within <span> but I have no idea how to reference the button for a .click().
Well, if you just want to click on an element without an id or name, I'd suggest three ways to do it:
use xpath:
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="generate"]/span')
use CSS selector:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#generate > span')
Just try .find_element_by_tag_name() like:
driver.find_element_by_id('generate').find_elements_by_tag_name('span')[0]
Note that this way first try to get the generate <div> element by it's id, and then finds all the <span> elements under that <div>.
Finally, gets the first <span> element use [0].
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How can I get the text "950" from the div that has neither a ID nor a Class with python selenium?
<div class="player-hover-box" style="display: none;">
<div class="ps-price-hover">
<div><img class="price-platform-img-hover"></div>
<div>950</div>
</div>
I dont know how I could access this div and its text.
In case player-hover-box is an unique class name you can use the following command
price = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[#class="player-hover-box"]/div/div[2]').text
In case there are more products on that page with the similar HTML structure your XPath locator should contain some unique relation to some other element.
I have a bellow HTML:
<div class="row">
<div><span class="checkbox"></span></div>
<a title="something"></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div><span class="checkbox"></span></div>
<a title="somethingelse"></div>
</div>
I would like to click on the checkbox if the a's title is something. I do not know how many rows are there so I need to check every row and if there the title == 'something' click the previous checkbox.
I tried to implement this in Python and Selenium, but so far could not succeed. I can check for a like:
driver.find_element_by_xpath(f"//div[contains(#class, 'row')]//a[#title='something']")
But how I can select the previous element?
Does anybody have a recommendation?
I am using get_attribute and trying to extract title and then putting a if clause that if title attribute text matches with your expected string then click on the above check box.
try this :
actual_text = driver.find_element_by_xpath(f"//div[contains(#class, 'row')]//a[#title='something']")
if actual_text.get_attribute('title') == 'your expected string here':
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[contains(#class, 'row')]//a[#title='something']/../child::span")
Try this:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[#class='row']/a[#title='something']/..//span[#class='checkbox']").click()
I am trying to preform a simple click, but cannot find out what way to find it due to the type of element it is.
<div class="active">
<div class="action-title">Reconcile All</div>
<div class="action-description">Reconcile all IPv4 addresses</div>
</div>
<div class="active">
<img src="/images/icons/small/checks.gif" border="0">
</div>
I have tried doing it several ways. Such as,
driver.find_elements_by_link_text("Reconcile All").click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "Reconcile All"))).click()
I even tried based of the icon
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(#src,'/images/icons/small/checks.gif')]").click()
Thanks in advance for any help
Div element can't click using link_text try Use following xpath and Webdriverwait to click.
WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//div[#class='active']//div[#class='action-title'][contains(.,'Reconcile All')]"))).click()
I am trying to use Python Selenium Firefox Webdriver to grab the h2 content 'My Data Title' from this HTML
<div class="box">
<ul class="navigation">
<li class="live">
<span>
Section Details
</span>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="box">
<h2>
My Data Title
</h2>
</div>
<div class="box">
<ul class="navigation">
<li class="live">
<span>
Another Section
</span>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="box">
<h2>
Another Title
</h2>
</div>
Each div has a class of box so I can't easily identify the one I want. Is there a way to tell Selenium to grab the h2 in the box class that comes after the one that has the span called 'Section Details'?
If you want grab the h2 in the box class that comes after the one that has the span with text Section Details try below xpath using preceding :-
(//h2[preceding::span[normalize-space(text()) = 'Section Details']])[1]
or using following :
(//span[normalize-space(text()) = 'Section Details']/following::h2)[1]
and for Another Section just change the span text in xpath as:-
(//h2[preceding::span[normalize-space(text()) = 'Another Section']])[1]
or
(//span[normalize-space(text()) = 'Another Section']/following::h2)[1]
Here is an XPath to select the title following the text "Section Details":
//div[#class='box'][normalize-space(.)='Section Details']/following::h2
yeah, you need to do some complicated xpath searching:
referenceElementList = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//span")
for eachElement in referenceElementList:
if eachElement.get_attribute("innerHTML") == 'Section Details':
elementYouWant = eachElement.find_element_by_xpath("../../../following-sibling::div/h2")
elementYouWant.get_attribute("innerHTML") should give you "My Data Title"
My code reads:
find all span elements regardless of where they are in HTML and store them in a list called referenceElementList;
iterate all span elements in referenceElementList one by one, looking for a span whose innerHTML attribute is 'Section Details'.
if there is a match, we have found the span, and we navigate backwards three levels to locate the enclosing div[#class='box'], and find this div element next sibling, which is the second div element,
Lastly, we locate the h2 element from its parent.
Can you please tell me if my code works? I might have gone wrong somewhere navigating backwards.
There is potential difficulty you may encounter, the innerHTML attribute may contain tab, new line and space characters, in that case, you need regex to do some filtering first.
I'm trying to figure out the answer to a problem I've recently discovered. I have some HTML as indicated below and what I want to do, is send an HTML snipped to selenium so it can click on the checkbox. However, I don't want to lookup by id because as you can see, the id is ugly. Instead, I am looking for an alternative method.
HTML:
<li class= "zone odd open night">...</li>
<li class= "zone even open night">...</li>
<li class= "zone odd open night">...</li>
<label for="srr-2-1397538000">Room 226 1:00 AM</label>
<input type="checkbox" name="srr-2-1397538000" id="srr-2-1397538000" value="Y" class="interactive">
<span class-"drag-handle">...</span>
</li>
<li class="zone even open night">...</li>
As you can see, I'm trying to lookup that specific checkbox to click but I don't want to do it by looking up via id. I would rather look up by "Room" or something more generic.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to do this? With using selenium, or some other webdriver?
Also, I've tried the classic:
element = driver.find_element_by_id("srr-2-1397538000")
element.click()
But as I said, this is not what I want.
Thank You
Can you use the tag name?
element = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('input')
element.click()
If you want to look it up by Room, you can use xpath:
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//label[contains(text(),'Room')]/following-sibling::input")
element.click()