Python Selenium - How to click on a javascript button

Question

I am new to Python and Selenium. I have the following code for a button on my site and I am unable to click on it using

 driver.find_element_by_id("AddToBasket").click()

or

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@id='AddToCartButton']").click()

Hovering over the button just displays javascript:void(0)

So here is my Code

<div class="add">
    <a href="javascript:void(0)" id="AddToBasket" class="addtobtn addtobag">
      <span>Add to cart</span>
    </a>

Thanks.

Trinh Truong · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-18 07:18:35Z

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from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
# You need a mouse to hover the span elements here
self.mouse = webdriver.ActionChains(self.driver)    

# You need get the span element from its xpath:
value = 'Add to cart'
span_xpath = '//span[contains(text(), "' + value + '")]'
span_element = driver.find_element_by_xpath(span_xpath)

# Then you hover on span element by mouse and click on it:
self.mouse.move_to_element(span_element).click().perform()

answered Nov 18, 2013 at 7:18

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