How to click on an element with an unique attribute using Selenium

Question

The website has multiple turn off buttons and the only thing that differentiates between them is the sales_area_uid 257207. How can I code this to click on the value of the uid?

HTML Source:

<input type="submit" class="button delete sales-area-status" name="submit_sales_area_status" data-sales-area-uid="275207" data-value="0" value="Turn Off">

Code so far:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Chrome(r'/usr/bin/chromedriver')
driver.get("https://izoneapps.zonalconnect.com/mobile_manager/login.php")

driver.implicitly_wait(7)

driver.find_element_by_id("username").send_keys('*****')
driver.find_element_by_id("password").send_keys('*****')

driver.find_element_by_name("submit_login").click()

driver.get("https://izoneapps.zonalconnect.com/mobile_manager/ordering/")

driver.find_elements_by_xpath ("//div[@data-sales-area-uid=275207]").click()

Instead of the handcrafted HTML update the question with the text based actual HTML. — undetected Selenium, Apr 07 '22 at 23:12

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 08 '22 at 05:45

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driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@data-sales-area-uid='275207']").click()

This should work for your problem

answered Apr 08 '22 at 05:45

juhat

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 08 '22 at 11:08

The value of the data-sales-area-uid attribute seems dynamic. Now among the several Turn Off elements if the desired element is always assigned the same value of data-sales-area-uid i.e. 275207 then to click on the specific element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.button.delete.sales-area-status[data-sales-area-uid='275207']"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@class='button delete sales-area-status' and @data-sales-area-uid='275207']"))).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 click on an element with an unique attribute using Selenium

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