How to click on the "Mail" button on the yahoo page using Selenium and Python

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I got a BUTTON variable for those buttons:

GoMailsBTN = browser.find_element_by_class_name("D(ib) Fz(14px) Fw(b) Lh(24px) Pstart(38px)")
GoMailsBTN.click()

and there is not like any id you can go check it out by yourself if you want! This is the error that pops out selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSelectorException: Message: invalid selector: An invalid or illegal selector was specified Anyone got any idea why this is?

Snapshot of the button:

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Post the HTML of the button in your answer so we can create a locator. ... and the problem is that the string you are passing is not a valid class name. There are no spaces in a valid class name... and probably not parentheses. — JeffC, Jul 04 '20 at 21:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 04 '20 at 19:17

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The class name is dynamic and can change, in this case, you can use xpath:

browser.find_element_by_xpath("//li//a[contains(@href ,'mail') and not(@id)]")

answered Jul 04 '20 at 19:17

Norayr Sargsyan

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 04 '20 at 21:25

The desired element is a JavaScript enabled element so 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:

driver.get('https://in.yahoo.com/?p=us')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a#header-mail-button span"))).click()

Using XPATH:

driver.get('https://in.yahoo.com/?p=us')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@id='header-mail-button']//span"))).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

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How to click on the "Mail" button on the yahoo page using Selenium and Python

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