No Id, No name. How to click this button?

Question

I am using selenium webdriver with python to navigate through a site and I can not figure out how to select this button.

<button onclick="addAutoTrade();blur();" type="button" style="background-
color:#c7c7c7;">Add</button>

The button is surrounded by a class but within the class are 2 buttons. I have tried using

driver.find_element_by_link_text("Add")
driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text("Add")
driver.find_element_by_name("Add")

There is no obvious id so I am stuck and I apologize if this is trivial. How can I click this button?

Is the context of the button always the same, so does an xpath work? — syntonym, Jul 03 '17 at 20:52
i encountered something like this once and the only thing that worked was this `//button[contains(.,'Add')]` . try it out — Rayhane Mama, Jul 03 '17 at 20:55
@RayhaneMama Like this? driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//button[contains(.,'Add')]"). If so still no luck — Nick Pavini, Jul 03 '17 at 21:02
if it is the first item you're looking for on the actual page you should put it in a wait like `WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//button[contains(.,'Add')]")))` — Rayhane Mama, Jul 03 '17 at 21:03
@RayhaneMama no luck. That code actually is not even recognized so I'm assuming I need to import something else? I appreciate you helping me btw. — Nick Pavini, Jul 03 '17 at 21:07
@syntonym the xpath, if I am on the right track, doesnt seem to be working — Nick Pavini, Jul 03 '17 at 21:07
Can you construct the xpath completly, so something like `/div/div/div/nav[3]/button`? — syntonym, Jul 03 '17 at 21:11

Rayhane Mama · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-03T21:19:11.863

try this, hope this works for you:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait

buttonXpath = "//button[contains(.,'Add')]"

element = WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,buttonXpath)))
element.click()

You can learn more about waits here and check selenium expected_conditions. these are quite usefull.
You can also see these topics about selecting buttons by text, they might help:

topic 1
topic 2

No Id, No name. How to click this button?

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