Unable to get focus back on to main window and click on disconnect button

Question

I have the below code

After coming back to main window unable to get focus and disconnect button is not getting clicked

parent_handle = driver.window_handles[0]

#clicks on  link
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='content']/div[4]/div/p/a").click()

child_handle = [x for x in driver.window_handles if x != parent_handle][0]
driver.switch_to.window(child_handle)

time.sleep(2)

#will work on this winow

driver.close()

driver.switch_to.window(parent_handle)
time.sleep(30)

#click on Disconnect button on toolbar on main window
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(), 'btn btn-outline-dark  et-disconnect-link et-disconnect-warning-link')]").click()

I tried several ways but getting the below error

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: 
Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//a[contains(text(), 'btn btn-outline-dark  et-disconnect-link et-disconnect-warning-link')]"}
  (Session info: chrome=79.0.3945.117)

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Guy · Answer 1 · 2020-01-09T06:36:59.287

You didn't post the html, but the xpath looks like classes, not text

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@class='btn btn-outline-dark et-disconnect-link et-disconnect-warning-link')]").click()

Or by css_selector

driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".btn.btn-outline-dark.et-disconnect-link.et-disconnect-warning-link").click()

You should also use explicit wait instead of time.sleep(30)

from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as ec
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 30)

driver.switch_to.window(parent_handle)
# time.sleep(30) -> remove this
element = wait.until(ec.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//a[@class='btn btn-outline-dark  et-disconnect-link et-disconnect-warning-link')]")))
element.click()

undetected Selenium · Answer 2 · 2020-01-09T10:55:55.997

Seems you were almost there. You need to consider a few more things as follows:

Assuming initially there is only one window_handle opened, instead of parent_handle = driver.window_handles[0] you can use driver.current_window_handle
Once you close the child window through driver.close(), you can use switch_to.default_content().
btn btn-outline-dark et-disconnect-link et-disconnect-warning-link seems to be the value of class attribute.

As your usecase is to invoke click() you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

parent_handle = driver.current_window_handle
#clicks on  link
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='content']/div[4]/div/p/a").click()
child_handle = [x for x in driver.window_handles if x != parent_handle][0]
driver.switch_to.window(child_handle)
#will work on this winow
driver.close()
driver.switch_to.window(parent_handle)
#click on Disconnect button on toolbar on main window
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a.btn.btn-outline-dark..et-disconnect-link.et-disconnect-warning-link"))).click()

Using XPATH:

parent_handle = driver.current_window_handle
#clicks on  link
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='content']/div[4]/div/p/a").click()
child_handle = [x for x in driver.window_handles if x != parent_handle][0]
driver.switch_to.window(child_handle)
#will work on this winow
driver.close()
driver.switch_to.window(parent_handle)
#click on Disconnect button on toolbar on main window
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@class='btn btn-outline-dark  et-disconnect-link et-disconnect-warning-link']"))).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

Unable to get focus back on to main window and click on disconnect button

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