How to identify this element using selenium and Python?

Question

I have tried to select the element below using xpath, id, class, nothing is working. This is the error message:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[@id="ui-id-26"]"}

HTML code of the element:

<a title="" href="#8eef8ef4-7cfc-4cb6-69cf-1cabf9625d74" class="ui-tabs-anchor" role="presentation" tabindex="-1" id="ui-id-26">Data</a>

Snapshot of the element:

the element I want to select and eventually click

I am using python.

This is my code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time
chromedriver = 'C:/Users/misha/Downloads/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver'

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
driver.get("https://login.cmegroup.com/sso/accountstatus/showAuth.action")
driver.maximize_window()
login = driver.find_element(By.ID, "loginBtn")

name = driver.find_element(By.ID, "user")
name.send_keys("MyEmail")
pwd = driver.find_element(By.ID, "pwd")
pwd.send_keys("MyPassword")
login.click()

time.sleep(15)

driver.get('https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/fx/cme-fx-market-profile-tool.html#analyze-more')


data = driver.find_element(By.XPATH,'//*[@id="ui-id-26"]')

data.click()

import time and try to add a time.sleep(5) between data and driver.get(url) — , Feb 18 '22 at 12:37
If possible add HTML snippet for the page. Also make sure that element you want to interact is not within the `iframe` — Krishna Majgaonkar, Feb 18 '22 at 12:41
The element `Id` could be dynamic or If not then element could be inside an `iframe`. You need to post the relevant html for better solutions. — KunduK, Feb 18 '22 at 12:44
Update the question with text based relevant HTML of the element. — undetected Selenium, Feb 18 '22 at 13:03
/html/body/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[9]/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[9]/div/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[3]/div[9]/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[9]/div/div[1]/div[2]/div/ul/li[2]/a is the full xpath @undetected Selenium if this helps — Misha Jiltsov, Feb 18 '22 at 13:23

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-18T15:25:01.220

To click on the element with text as Data you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using link_text:

driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "Data").click()

Using css_selector:

driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a.ui-tabs-anchor[id^='ui-id'][title]").click()

Using xpath:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//a[@class='ui-tabs-anchor' and starts-with(@id, 'ui-id')][text()='Data']").click()

The desired element is a dynamic element, so ideally 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 LINK_TEXT:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "Data"))).click()

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a.ui-tabs-anchor[id^='ui-id'][title]"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@class='ui-tabs-anchor' and starts-with(@id, 'ui-id')][text()='Data']"))).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:

when I use By it says element=driver.find_element(By.ID,"myname") NameError: name 'By' is not defined. Did you mean: 'py'? — Lokesh thakur, Jun 20 '22 at 12:53

How to identify this element using selenium and Python?

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