How to click on td element using selenium python

Question

So I'm Fairley new to selenium and I'm attempting click on a table but I can't seem to find it. Below I have posted my code along with a screen shot of what I'm trying to click on.

Here is my code:

competitorPrices = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "Competitor Prices"))).click()

HTML snapshot:

Error:

Element snapshot:

Answer 1

I would try something like this:

...
import time
time.sleep(5)
xpath = "//*[contains(text(),'Competitor Prices')]"
element = driver.find_element(by=By.XPATH, value=xpath)
competitorPrices = driver.execute_script("$(arguments[0]).click();", element) 

Sometimes the method element_to_be_clickable doesn't work out of the box. In this cases to debug I use time.sleep so I can understand better the problem

Answer 2

The desired element is a <td> not an <a> tag. Hence LINK_TEXT won't work.

Moreover click() doesn't returns anything, so competitorPrices will be always None which you may remove.

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Solution

You can use either of the following locator strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "table#tblTabStrip td[ch^='CompetitorPrices']"))).click()
  

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//table[@id='tblTabStrip']//td[text()='Competitor Prices']"))).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