Selenium python cannot click on object when trying to find by class name

Question

A relatively simple issue, I am trying to click on the "Car" button on this site, using Selenium to do this, I have the following code

    from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import  ChromeDriverManager

def runScript():
    with open("plates.txt") as file:
        lines = [line.rstrip() for line in file]

    browser = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
    browser.get('https://www.myplates.com.au/#/')
    browser.find_element_by_class_name('col-3 col-md-3 rfh-item-box ng-star-inserted').click();


if __name__ == '__main__':
    runScript()

Now I wish to click on this button here

This is located on this site

This is the button I wish to click

https://www.myplates.com.au/#/

I also need to select the text drop box and write some input into it how would I also go about doing this.

Thank you any assistance is appreciated

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 29 '22 at 05:54

The desired element is a Angular element, so to click on the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use the following locator strategies:

Using XPATH:

driver.get('https://www.myplates.com.au/#/')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='row rfh-menu-list']//div[@class='row']//div[contains(@class, 'rfh-type-item') and contains(., 'Car')]"))).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

Selenium python cannot click on object when trying to find by class name

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