How to use explicit wait on one element out of a list with Python Selenium?

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I have HTML that (somehow) includes two elements with the same ID. Only one of them is clickable, and to identify the one I want to click, I am using:

driver.find_elements_by_id('someID')[1]

Now I want to convert this to an explicit wait. If there was only one element with that ID (or any selector), I would do this:

WebDriverWait(driver, 2).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, 'someID')))

How do I convert that statement to identify the second item with that ID, not the first? The alternative is to use the full xpath of the element, but I thought finding the second element with the ID would be more stable.

You can still use xpath and leverage ID attribute in the xpath — Sureshmani Kalirajan, Jul 23 '20 at 18:47
since there are two elements with the same ID (unfortunate), this does not work, because it just picks the first element with that ID to begin the xpath with — OverflowingTheGlass, Jul 23 '20 at 19:16
You can select the one using the index. try the following xpath //*[@id='someID'][2] — Sureshmani Kalirajan, Jul 23 '20 at 19:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 23 '20 at 19:53

Instead of element_to_be_clickable() you can induce WebDriverWait for visibility_of_all_elements_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using ID:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.ID, "someID")))[1].click()

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#someID")))[1].click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='someID']")))[1].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

this gave me a standard `TimeoutException1`, as if the elements are not found. however `driver.find_elements_by_id('getDimension')` works perfectly. — OverflowingTheGlass, Jul 23 '20 at 21:20

How to use explicit wait on one element out of a list with Python Selenium?

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