Find Elements by their Attribute in Python Selenium WebDriver

Question

I have to deal with a table like this :

<table id="product">
  <tr>
    <td data-sortable-id="ax01">Axe</td>
    <td>Wood</td>
    <td>Red</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-sortable-id="ha01">Hammer</td>
    <td>Iron</td>
    <td>Black</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-sortable-id="na01">Nail</td>
    <td>Metal</td>
    <td>Black</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="3">3 Products Listed</td>
  </tr>
</table>

How can I select all td elements which have the attribute data-sortable-id? I can't find anything in Google search about finding elements by attribute (without a value, attribute's own name only).

I've tried something like

x = webdriver.find_elements_by_xpath("//td[@data-sortable-id]")
print(len(x))

but the result is 0.

Follow this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49426387/beautifulsoup-table-data-extraction/49426592#comment85854543_49426592, I think it can help you. — the.salman.a, Mar 23 '18 at 04:10
@the.salman.a i dont know what you want to show me? i cant get it.. can you please give me a little advice? — Tan Ory Jaka Perdana, Mar 23 '18 at 04:27
The link that I shared had similar problem, Follow that answer. may be you'll need to modify that code a bit. But, then again, the fun is in making our own codes. Isn't it! — the.salman.a, Mar 23 '18 at 04:29
@the.salman.a, i need only to count how many td which have attribute "data-sortable-id".. and its not equal to any value on it.. — Tan Ory Jaka Perdana, Mar 23 '18 at 04:35
I think the xpath is fine, its just that the page @ runtime does not have that element when you tried to access it. Maybe try printing it first and verify the page. — johnII, Mar 23 '18 at 04:40
i've found the solution..find_element_by_css_selector("tr[data-sortable-id]") — Tan Ory Jaka Perdana, Apr 16 '18 at 15:37

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 23 '18 at 08:36

To find all the <td> tags which have attribute data-sortable-id you can use the following granular xpath :

"//table[@id='product']/tr//td[@data-sortable-id]"

Perhaps you need to induce WebDriverWait in-conjunction with expected_conditions clause as visibility_of_all_elements_located as follows :

x = WebDriverWait(webdriver, 30).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, "//table[@id='product']//tr//td[@data-sortable-id]")))
print(len(x))

Find Elements by their Attribute in Python Selenium WebDriver

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