clicking on a button i cant find with selenium in python

Question

I have this html element:

<button class="expedition_button awesome-button " onclick="attack(null, '6', 2, 0, '')"><div></div><div></div></button>

and I cant click on it for some reason with my code... just gives me an error about not finding the element by class...

Is there a way sending the function of the button "onclick" the information the button hold? i.e sending the function of this button the information - "attack(null, '6', 2, 0, '')"

or finding the button using this information

Tried xpath but I cant seem to find it.. just gives me this:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element: /html/body/div[2]/div/div[3]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/button

When I check the xpath I see it changes every time the page opens up..

Please post what code you were using to try and find the element by className — Ryan Wilson, Aug 30 '18 at 16:14
browser.find_element_by_class_name('expedition_button awesome-button') but it really doesnt matter since there is 4 buttons with the same class name.. each one is a child of div with the same class names as well — omerb, Aug 30 '18 at 16:18
Checkout https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37771604/selenium-compound-class-names-not-permitted ... `find_element_by_class_name` function only allows for one class parameter. — Gary Thomas, Aug 30 '18 at 16:21
Is there anything in the html which indicates the button you want to click on such as a label or text? — Ryan Wilson, Aug 30 '18 at 16:22
the thing is like this, there are 4 buttons exactly the same just under different container's that each one sends differenet information to a onclick function... — omerb, Aug 30 '18 at 16:24
Show us full html or your html code for other button elements. — theGuy, Aug 30 '18 at 16:24
@omerb I understand the structure, but certainly there is some kind of "label or text" which indicates what clicking one of the 4 buttons will do. As theGuy said, post the relevant Html. — Ryan Wilson, Aug 30 '18 at 16:26
https://ibb.co/e71v59 https://ibb.co/jkZtsp https://ibb.co/cqfBdU — omerb, Aug 30 '18 at 16:29
as you can see there is a div id of expedition_info1,2,3,4 but the child of it is not found... they are the same the only thing changing is the expedition_info1,2,3,4 and the information the button sends to the function onclick — omerb, Aug 30 '18 at 16:30
@omerb People are not going to want to click on some outside resource link that your provided, post the HTML in your question. — Ryan Wilson, Aug 30 '18 at 16:33
its an uploading site to an image... the html code is too big to post here — omerb, Aug 30 '18 at 16:35

theGuy · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-30T17:18:26.833

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I guess you have a div element with unique id 'expedition_info1'. You can use xpath Axes to click on button in relation to this div element. Try:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='expedition_info1']/following-sibling::*[1]/button")// to click on 1st button element.

edited Aug 30 '18 at 17:18

answered Aug 30 '18 at 16:37

theGuy

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my bad, its should be following-sibling, try again now. – theGuy Aug 30 '18 at 17:18

Ryan Wilson · Answer 2 · 2018-08-30T17:20:31.373

Ok, so I put this together as best as I can, as I don't code in Python, so my syntax may be incorrect in certain places, but I tried to do it right, in either case the logic is there and the comments should explain what I am doing:

First lets get the container div:

//Get the container which holds the 4 divs and their buttons
containerDiv = browser.find_element_by_id('expedition_list')

//Get the divs which contain the buttons
containerDivs = containerDiv.find_elements_by_class_name('expedition_box')

//Iterate the containers
for val in containerDivs:
    //Get the div elements of the container
    childDivs = val.find_elements_by_tag_name('div')
    //iterate these divs, looking for the one which contains a button
    for val1 in childDivs
       buttonDiv = val1.find_elements_by_tag_name('button')
       //Check to see if we found a div with a button
       if len(buttonDiv) > 0
          for button in buttonDiv
          //If the button text is what we are looking for, click it
          if button.Text = 'whatever your button's text is'
             button.Click

@omerb This checks the text of the button, not the div. I would think that the button text is different for each button or else what would be the point in having 4 buttons? — Ryan Wilson, Aug 30 '18 at 18:05
each button is used to attack an npc in a game, each container has its own npc with a button to attack under it. the text is the same for all the button's... — omerb, Aug 30 '18 at 20:00
@omerb Then check for the name of the npc in the container and if that condition is met, drill down to the button, you could modify what I gave you and accomplish your goal — Ryan Wilson, Aug 30 '18 at 20:03

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