Trying to make my bot click on a submit button.
<div class="usertext-buttons">
<button type="submit" onclick="" class="save">save</button>
<button type="button" onclick="return cancel_usertext(this);" class="cancel" style="display:none">cancel</button>
<span class="status"></span></div>
I want to get the second row element with the type="submit"
driver.find_element_by_xpath doesn't work since the xpath is different for every post. What can I pull here that generally works?
To click on the element with text as save you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using css_selector:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("button.save[type='submit'][onclick]").click()
Using xpath:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@class='save' and text()='save'][@type='submit' and @onclick]").click()
Ideally, to click on the element you have 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, "button.save[type='submit'][onclick]"))).click()
Using XPATH:
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@class='save' and text()='save'][@type='submit' and @onclick]"))).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
Try using css selector:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('div.usertext-buttons > button[type=submit]').click()
