Python Selenium click checkbox without id and name

Question

I'm trying to set up an automation that can help me work easier. I want to log in to a device automatically and set up some initial settings. The part I am having trouble with is that I have to check a checkbox to continue, but I couldn't find a way to click on the button. link

This is the XPath for that button:

//*[@id="tableHdd"]/div/div[1]/span[1]/input

broswer.find_element_by_class_name('table-cell').find_elements_by_class_name('checkbox').click()

Please avoid snapshot rather post html in text format on your original post. — KunduK, Jun 04 '19 at 15:56
Thank you all for all the corrections. This is the first time that i used this to ask the question. I will work on my grammar and some other stuff in the future. — Jonas Chiu, Jun 04 '19 at 22:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 04 '19 at 16:16

You're misusing Element Locators

find_element_* should return a single unique WebElement. If the locator matches > 1 element - the first match will be returned.
find_elements_* - returns the List of WebElements, you cannot invoke click() function from the list

So if there is only one checkbox at the page - you can tick it like:

driver.find_element_by_class_name("checkbox").click()

If there are more checkboxes and you need to tick particular that one - use slightly amended XPath expression:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='tableHdd']/descendant::*/span[@class='table-cell']/input").click()

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 04 '19 at 16:40

To clcick() on the checkbox you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div#tableHdd > div.table > div.table-header > span.table-cell > input.checkbox"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@id='tableHdd']/div[@class='table']/div[@class='table-header']/span[@class='table-cell']/input[@class='checkbox']"))).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

Thanks for the help. I tried your solution and it works now. — Jonas Chiu, Jun 04 '19 at 22:02

Python Selenium click checkbox without id and name

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