Radio button does not get clicked in Selenium / Python

Question

Folks, this is driving me crazy. I have snippets like the following

<label class="" for="M37_Q_POSWECHSEL_BETT_B1">
    <input id="M37_Q_POSWECHSEL_BETT_B1" name="M37_Q_POSWECHSEL_BETT" value="B1" aria-describedby="M37_Q_POSWECHSEL_BETT_error_0" aria-invalid="true" data-clipboard="M37_Q_POSWECHSEL_BETT#B1" type="radio">
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</label>

Here, I'd like to select the radio buttons and select them with the following code:

radios = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//input[starts-with(@id, 'M37_Q_')][@value='B1']")
for radio in radios:
    # just check the id
    print(radio.get_attribute('id'))
    radio.click()

It correctly selects the elements in question. However, it does not get selected nor does it yield any obvious errors. Can we use .click() to select radio buttons here? Is this some kind of handler problem?

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@zelusp: I guess it's depending on the type of question you're asking. I'd reckon that `JSON` questions are generally reaching a broader audience, e.g. your answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12943819/how-to-prettyprint-a-json-file/37757378#37757378 — Jan, Jul 15 '17 at 06:20

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 17 '17 at 12:06

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Try this,

driver.execute_script("arguments[0].checked = true;",element)

You can also try by sending ENTER Key to the element.

answered Apr 17 '17 at 12:06

Chanda Korat

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Does not do the job. – Jan Apr 17 '17 at 14:37
@Jan I have gone through some of the articles and they says apply wait because sometimes element is not in the state to click. – Chanda Korat Apr 18 '17 at 06:07

Kushal Bhalaik · Answer 2 · 2017-04-17T14:48:32.467

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Try using following Css selector:

        Actions action = new Actions(drive);

        action.moveToElement(drive.findElement( By.cssSelector("label > input[id^='M37_Q_']"))).build().perform();

        drive.findElement( By.cssSelector("label > input[id^='M37_Q_']")).click();

edited Apr 17 '17 at 14:48

answered Apr 17 '17 at 06:18

Kushal Bhalaik

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Does not do the job. – Jan Apr 17 '17 at 14:36
As stated, this is in `Python`, your code is for sth. else (probably `JS`). – Jan Apr 17 '17 at 15:11
ohh.. my bad, This code is for Java but you can try using selenium actions class in python if available. – Kushal Bhalaik May 19 '17 at 10:35

Radio button does not get clicked in Selenium / Python

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