Python Selenium Element click

Question

With my beginner knowledge in selenium I have tried to find the click element, to the open the link. There is not href for link for these items. How can I perform click on correct element to open the link.

I am using python, selenium, chrome web driver, BeautifulSoup. All libraries are updated.

Below is the sample html snippet where there is a title I need to click on using selenium. Please let me know if you need more html source. This code is from a "sign in" only website.

<h2> <!--For Verified item--> <a class="clickable" style="cursor:pointer;" onmousedown="open_item_detail('0000013', '0', false)" id="View item Detail" serial="0000013"> Sample Item </a> <!--For unverified item--> </h2> 

Answer 1

wait for the element, then find by the right xpath.

from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver') driver.get("https://yourpage.com") elem = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//contains(a[text(),"Sample Item")]'))) elem.click() 

Answer 2

To click on the 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, "Sample Item"))).click() 

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "h2 a.clickable[onmousedown^='open_item_detail']"))).click() 

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//h2//a[@class='clickable' and starts-with(@onmousedown, 'open_item_detail')][contains(., 'Sample Item')]"))).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