How can click on this specific element?

Question

I have python 3.10, selenium 4.3.0 and i would like to click on the following element:

<a href="#" onclick="fireLoginOrRegisterModalRequest('sign_in');ga('send', 'event', 'main_navigation', 'login', '1st_level');"> Mein Konto </a>

Unfortunately, driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR,"a[onclick^='fireLoginOrRegisterModalRequest'][onclick*='login']").click() does not work. See the following error message. The other opportunities wont work as well and i get a simular error message..

"C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe" "C:/Users/.../PycharmProjects/bot/main.py"
C:\Users\...\PycharmProjects\bot\main.py:7: DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated, please pass in a Service object
  driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver.exe')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\...\PycharmProjects\bot\main.py", line 15, in <module>
    mkButton = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a[onclick^='fireLoginOrRegisterModalRequest'][onclick*='login']").click()
  File "C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 88, in click
    self._execute(Command.CLICK_ELEMENT)
  File "C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 396, in _execute
    return self._parent.execute(command, params)
  File "C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 435, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 247, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable
  (Session info: chrome=103.0.5060.114)
Stacktrace:
Backtrace:
    Ordinal0 [0x00D35FD3+2187219]
    Ordinal0 [0x00CCE6D1+1763025]
    Ordinal0 [0x00BE3D40+802112]
    Ordinal0 [0x00C12C03+994307]
    Ordinal0 [0x00C089B3+952755]
    Ordinal0 [0x00C2CB8C+1100684]
    Ordinal0 [0x00C08394+951188]
    Ordinal0 [0x00C2CDA4+1101220]
    Ordinal0 [0x00C3CFC2+1167298]
    Ordinal0 [0x00C2C9A6+1100198]
    Ordinal0 [0x00C06F80+946048]
    Ordinal0 [0x00C07E76+949878]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x00FD90C2+2721218]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x00FCAAF0+2662384]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x00DC137A+526458]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x00DC0416+522518]
    Ordinal0 [0x00CD4EAB+1789611]
    Ordinal0 [0x00CD97A8+1808296]
    Ordinal0 [0x00CD9895+1808533]
    Ordinal0 [0x00CE26C1+1844929]
    BaseThreadInitThunk [0x7688FA29+25]
    RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath [0x77D57A9E+286]
    RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath [0x77D57A6E+238]


Process finished with exit code 1

undetected Selenium · Answer 1 · 2022-07-21T12:53:31.203

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

Using partial_link_text:

driver.find_element(By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Mein Konto").click()

Using css_selector:

driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a[onclick^='fireLoginOrRegisterModalRequest'][onclick*='login']").click()

Using xpath:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//a[starts-with(@onclick, 'fireLoginOrRegisterModalRequest') and contains(., 'Mein Konto')]").click()

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 PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Mein Konto"))).click()

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a[onclick^='fireLoginOrRegisterModalRequest'][onclick*='login']"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[starts-with(@onclick, 'fireLoginOrRegisterModalRequest') and contains(., 'Mein Konto')]"))).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

Unfortunately, it does not work with it. See the following error message `selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable` — Jtss, Jul 21 '22 at 13:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 21 '22 at 12:40

first add id attribute for <a> tag

id="link"

then use the following:

# import webdriver
from selenium import webdriver
  
# create webdriver object
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
  
# get geeksforgeeks.org
driver.get("https://your.website.com")
  
# get element 
element = driver.find_element_by_id("link")
  
# click the element
element.click()

or just by the text

element = driver.find_element_by_link_text("Mein Konto")

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 21 '22 at 14:13

Use the following xpath -

//a[contains(@onclick,'fireLoginOrRegisterModalRequest('sign_in')')][contains(text(),'Mein Konto')]

The code will look like -

element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(@onclick,'fireLoginOrRegisterModalRequest('sign_in')')][contains(text(),'Mein Konto')]")

Let me know if this works.

How can click on this specific element?

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