Using Selenium in Python to click/select a radio button

Question

I am trying to select from a list of 3 buttons, but can't find a way to select them. Below is the HTML I am working with.

<input name="pollQuestion" type="radio" value="SRF"> <font face="arial,sans-serif" size="-1">ChoiceOne</font><br /> <input name="pollQuestion" type="radio" value="COM"> <font face="arial,sans-serif" size="-1">ChoiceTwo</font><br /> <input name="pollQuestion" type="radio" value="MOT"> <font face="arial,sans-serif" size="-1">ChoiceThree</font> 

I can find it by using the following code:

for i in browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[@type='radio']"): print i.get_attribute("value") 

This outputs: SRF,COM,MOT

But I would like to select ChoiceOne. (To click it) How do I do this?

Answer 1

Use CSS Selector or XPath to select by value attribute directly, then click it.

browser.find_element_by_css_selector("input[type='radio'][value='SRF']").click() # browser.find_element_by_xpath(".//input[@type='radio' and @value='SRF']").click() 

Corrections (but OP should learn how to look up in documentation)

• In Python binding, find_elements_by_css doesn't exist, it's called find_elements_by_css_selector. One should be able to look at the exception message and look back into documentation here and figure out why.
• Notice the difference between find_element_by_css_selector and find_elements_by_css_selector? The first one finds the first matching element, the second one finds a list, so you need to use [0] to index. Here is the API documentation. The reason why I use the latter, is because I copied your code, which I shouldn't.

Answer 2

Selenium webdriver Radio button click

When i used xpath :

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='id_gender2']").click() 

radio button not selected

But I used css_selector :

driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input#id_gender1").click() 

radio button selected

Answer 3

find_elements_by_css_selector worked for me,

browser.find_elements_by_css_selector("input[type='radio'][value='SRF']")[0].click() 

Answer 4

First Radio button was not selected for me also. But after inserting Time it works for me.

driver.find_element_by_class_name("login").click() driver.find_element_by_id("email_create").send_keys("[email protected]") driver.find_element_by_id("SubmitCreate").click() time.sleep(2) driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#id_gender2").click() 

Answer 5

Consider that you have a radio button to select either of the two options, "Male or "Female". Then try using the following :- This is in Python (Selenium).

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//label[contains(text(),'Male')]").click()

Answer 6

browser.find_elements_by_xpath(".//input[@type='radio' and @value='SRF']")[0].click 

This ended up being the fix. I was getting errors without the [0] there, that a list does not have a click() attribute (even though there was only 1 match). Thanks for the help user1177636!

Answer 7

Another simple approach if there's only those radio buttons on the whole page (as in my case),

folder = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH,"//*[@type='radio']") folder[i].click() 

You can give the index of the radio button you want to select and it will be selected. Or you can play with it to get your job done.