Python Selenium Element click

Question

With my beginner knowledge in selenium I have tried to find the click element, to the open the link. There is not href for link for these items. How can I perform click on correct element to open the link.

I am using python, selenium, chrome web driver, BeautifulSoup. All libraries are updated.

Below is the sample html snippet where there is a title I need to click on using selenium. Please let me know if you need more html source. This code is from a "sign in" only website.

<h2> <!--For Verified item-->
  <a class="clickable" style="cursor:pointer;" onmousedown="open_item_detail('0000013', '0', false)" id="View item Detail" serial="0000013">
    Sample Item
  </a>
  <!--For unverified item-->
</h2>

share the link and the name of the item you want to click – Abhishek Rai Nov 16 '20 at 19:02 — Abhishek Rai, Nov 16 '20 at 19:02

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 16 '20 at 18:51

wait for the element, then find by the right xpath.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver')
driver.get("https://yourpage.com")
elem = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//contains(a[text(),"Sample Item")]')))
elem.click()

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 16 '20 at 20:12

To click on the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Sample Item"))).click()

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "h2 a.clickable[onmousedown^='open_item_detail']"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//h2//a[@class='clickable' and starts-with(@onmousedown, 'open_item_detail')][contains(., 'Sample Item')]"))).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

How to loop through these sort of links to click and come back. When I try to loop click it only click first link only. — ACE, Nov 16 '20 at 20:41
@ACE Can you raise a new question with your new requirement please? Would be glad to help you out. — undetected Selenium, Nov 16 '20 at 20:43
This new question has been asked several times on SO. A search should help you find them. — DMart, Nov 19 '20 at 17:26

Python Selenium Element click

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