Click on button element based on its value in Selenium Python

Question

There is HTML code like below:

<input type="button" name="" value="back" onclick="window.history.back(1)" class="back-btn">

I want to click on it based on its value (back):

elements = driver.find_elements_by_link_text('back')
for element in elements:
    element.click()

But it does not work.

Does this answer your question? [Selenium webdriver python, cannot find by value?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28610407/selenium-webdriver-python-cannot-find-by-value) — JeffC, Jan 30 '20 at 21:06

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 30 '20 at 11:36

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You can use css_selector

driver.find_element_by_css_selector('[value="back"]')

Or xpath

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@value="back"]')

answered Jan 30 '20 at 11:36

Guy

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Bendik Knapstad · Answer 2 · 2020-01-30T11:34:48.233

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Look like you can select based on class name

elements=driver.find_elements_by_class_name("back-btn")
for element in elements:
    element.click()

If you cant use class try selecting all input tags and filter by attribute

elements=driver.find_elements_by_tag_name("input")
for element in elements:
    if element.get_attribute("value")=="back":
        element.click()

edited Jan 30 '20 at 11:34

answered Jan 30 '20 at 11:31

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Thank you for the response but the Question is click based on value, not a class. There are some other buttons with the same class on the page. – Mahdi Jan 30 '20 at 11:33
ive added by value aswell – Bendik Knapstad Jan 30 '20 at 11:35

Joyson Martinraj · Answer 3 · 2022-09-08T11:52:19.433

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This was easy for me

driver.find_element_by_link_text("back").click()

edited Sep 08 '22 at 11:52

answered Sep 08 '22 at 11:50

Joyson Martinraj

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This does not answer the question. OP wants to find the element based on the `value` attribute. – Daniil Fajnberg Sep 13 '22 at 09:05
back is the linked text defined in value attribute in this case. Hence there is no seperate text displayed for the button, this should work. – Joyson Martinraj Sep 13 '22 at 10:34

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 04 '23 at 20:43

Given the HTML:

<input type="button" name="" value="back" onclick="window.history.back(1)" class="back-btn">

Its an <input> element with the attribute value as back.

Solution

Using the value attribute to click on the element you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using css_selector:

driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[value='back']").click()

Using xpath:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//input[@value='back']").click()

Note: You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

Ideally to click on the clickable element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[value='back']"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@value='back']"))).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

Click on button element based on its value in Selenium Python

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