Clicking on a link using Selenium Python

Question

Please need your support to click on a link in the following:

I tried the below code but doesn't work:

web.find_element(By.XPATH,'//*[@id="HUI_i_0"]/table/tbody/tr/td/a').click()

It gives me error:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[@id="HUI_i_0"]/table/tbody/tr/td/a"}

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 18 '22 at 07:27

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Try to use link text to locate element:

web.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT,'Subscriber Administration').click()

If link is dynamic try to add wait

answered Feb 18 '22 at 07:27

JaSON

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Unfortunately I tried it but failed too – Ahmed Tantawy Feb 22 '22 at 14:41
@AhmedTantawy check if link [is in iframe](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44834358/switch-to-an-iframe-through-selenium-and-python). – JaSON Feb 23 '22 at 05:39
Excuse me but how can I check it? – Ahmed Tantawy Mar 04 '22 at 06:31
@AhmedTantawy check if link is descendant of `iframe` node – JaSON Mar 04 '22 at 15:25
unfortunately not – Ahmed Tantawy Mar 06 '22 at 10:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 06 '22 at 18:21

The desired element is a dynamic element, so to click() on the clickable 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, "tbody > tr > td.treeNode > a"))).click()

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a.btn.signin-btn.sbLoginBtn > span.btf-text"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[contains(., 'Subscriber Administration')]"))).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

References

You can find a couple of relevant discussions on NoSuchElementException in:

Clicking on a link using Selenium Python

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