selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element using Selenium and Python

Question

Unable to interact with href link.

Code trials:

browser = webdriver.Chrome() 
browser.implicitly_wait(5) 
browser.get(URL) 
webbrowser.open(URL) 
#if Size == 'Large': 
ClickS =browser.find_element_by_id('product-select').click() 
SizeS = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//option[@value='12218866696317']").click() 
#Send to cart 
AddtoCart = browser.find_element_by_css_selector("input[type='submit']").click() 
GotoCart = browser.find_element_by_partial_link_text("Cart").click()

Code and Error snapshot:

HTML:

<a href="/cart" class="cart-heading">Cart</a>

HTML Snapshot:

When i copied pasted my code a problem would occur and it woudnt let me post it — Alan Fierro, Dec 29 '18 at 05:21
It seems your element is hidden. can you post the HTML code rather than snap — NarendraR, Dec 29 '18 at 06:01
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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 29 '18 at 08:29

This error message...

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element {"method":"link text","selector":"Cart"}

...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to locate the desired element as per the line:

GotoCart = browser.find_element_by_link_text("Cart").click()

Solution

You need to induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable and you can use either of the following solutions:

Using LINK_TEXT:

WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "Cart"))).click()

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "section#header a.cart-heading[href='/cart']"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//section[@id='header']//a[@class='cart-heading' and @href='/cart']"))).click()

Note : You have to add the following imports :

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

PS: You can find a detailed discussion in Selenium “selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException” when using Chrome

thank you veery much it now works but i have to ask how you got "section#header a.cart-heading[href='/cart']" for the css selector along with xpath — Alan Fierro, Dec 30 '18 at 01:13
The _CssSelector_ was pretty much evident within the image you have provided. — undetected Selenium, Jan 01 '19 at 18:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 29 '18 at 06:04

The error is at the bottom of the stack trace, it can't find the element from the link text that you gave it. It's probably the same problem that this person had where the python was going too fast and the page hadn't fully loaded: How to use find_element_by_link_text() properly to not raise NoSuchElementException?

So just add browser.implicitly_wait(10) right after the line where you set browser.

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element using Selenium and Python

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