Can't find and click element using selenium

Question

This is the HTML:

<li class="Y8-fY "><a class="-nal3 " href="/example/" tabindex="0"><span class="g47SY ">1.692</span> abonniert</a></li>

I tried using XPATH with the href to find it but i just get the nosuchelement error.

Please share your code you have tried. Also if possible share a link to that page or at least the HTML of that page — Prophet, Dec 15 '21 at 08:54
Please provide enough code so others can better understand or reproduce the problem. — Community, Dec 21 '21 at 17:50

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 15 '21 at 09:06

To click() on the desired 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, "abonniert"))).click()

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "li > a[href='/example/'] > span"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//li/a[@href='/example/']/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

Can't find and click element using selenium

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