Using Selenium in Python to select a radio button

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I am trying to make a bot that automates booking a study room (Microsoft booking). When I try to select the radio button, it doesn't work. I tried using id and CSS_SELECTOR. I appreciate any help you can provide.

I want select room C, ID:service_2

room_c_select=driver.find_element(By.ID, "service_2")
room_c_select.click()

driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR,"input#service_2").click()

driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR,"[class='right serviceCard']input[type='radio'][id='service_2']")[0].click()

ok, do you have to click on the small circle or on any point of the card? — sound wave, Jan 18 '23 at 17:26
You can click on any point in the card and it still works... I am talking about manually.... — Sam Bahrami, Jan 18 '23 at 17:50
ok, well it's hard to tell what's going on without having access to the site, could you share it? or the full html code — sound wave, Jan 18 '23 at 18:05
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19QaSrL5MFFBGh1YaZ1KO6pV7ULT6m9EL/view?usp=share_link you should be able to find the HTML code here. u can't open the website without my uni email and log-in info :( — Sam Bahrami, Jan 18 '23 at 18:12

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 18 '23 at 18:25

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You have to click on the small circle, i.e.

driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'span.image.icon-circleRegular')[1].click()

answered Jan 18 '23 at 18:25

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '23 at 19:32

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Using find_elements() to locate any specific element isn't a part of the best practices as demonstrated by the other answer.

As per the html published as a comment, to click on the radio-button associated with the text Group Study Room C you can use the following locator strategy:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[@class='name line-clamp' and text()='Group Study Room C']//ancestor::label[1]").click()

answered Jan 18 '23 at 19:32

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Isn't `//div[text()='Group Study Room C']//ancestor::label` enough? – sound wave Jan 18 '23 at 21:02
@soundwave Apparently enough. But as per the best practices an index is required which can make a difference in rarest of the rare usecases. – undetected Selenium Jan 18 '23 at 21:06

Using Selenium in Python to select a radio button

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