Python selenium find element by xpath or css selector

Question

how can i click on the "NATIONAL" text with python selenium

<div class="ellipsis__content"> <ul class="breadcrumb_new" id="breadcrumb"> <li> <span>NATIONAL</span> </li> </ul> </div> 

I tried these below things,

find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='breadcrumb']/li/span") find_element_by_css_selector("#breadcrumb > li > span") 

Both the methods not working, any idea here

Answer 1

Try this one, should work for you:

ele=driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='breadcrumb']//span") ele.click() 

Answer 2

Already this question has an answered but adding couple of points.

I tried these below things,

find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='breadcrumb']/li/span") 

The idbreadcrumb is part of ul tag but you are referring div tag. It should work if try as below.

find_element_by_xpath("//ul[@id='breadcrumb']/li/span") 

find_element_by_css_selector("#breadcrumb > li > span")

There is nothing wrong with CSS locator. It should work still if you are seeing issue you may need to debug and see or try by adding some explicit value.

Answer 3

May be you need to wait till element is rendered properly.

Code trial 1 :

time.sleep(5) driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='breadcrumb']/li/span").click() 

Code trial 2 :

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@id='breadcrumb']/li/span"))).click() 

PS : Please check in the dev tools (Google chrome) if we have unique entry in HTML DOM or not.

Steps to check:

Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL + F -> then paste the xpath and see, if your desired element is getting highlighted with 1/1 matching node.