How to click on the element using Selenium and Python

Question

I want to click on "create post" button of this element:

<div class="l61y9joe j8otv06s a1itoznt qwtvmjv2 kiex77na lgsfgr3h mcogi7i5 ih1xi9zn ippphs35 a53abz89" data-hover="tooltip" data-tooltip-display="overflow" id="js_2f">Create Post</div> 

But this id (id="js_2f") has a random value:

I did it this way but didn't work !

wait = WebDriverWait(self.browser, 20) wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[text()='Create Post' and contains(@id, 'js_')]"))).click() 

How can i click on it Using Xpath method ?

Answer 1

Following should help:

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[contains(text(),"Create Post")]').click() 

Answer 2

You can try below xpath with contains

//div[contains(text(),'Create Post')] 

Answer 3

You can try to perform a click on this element using link text

driver.find_element_by_link_text("Create Post") 

or

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[text() = 'Create Post']") 

Answer 4

The Create Post button is a JavaScript enabled element, so to click on the element you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[data-hover='tooltip'][data-tooltip-display]"))).click() 

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@data-hover='tooltip' and text()='Create Post'][@data-tooltip-display]"))).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