Python using Selenium to click on a button based on type, value, and class

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So this is what the html looks like:

<button type="submit" name="page" value="2" class="_btn _btng">Next →</button>

<button type="submit" name="page" value="1" class="_btn">← Back</button>

And this is what I'm attempting:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'Next')]").click()

For whatever reasons, this isn't actually clicking the button, it's just moving down to where the button is located and it just waits there. So maybe there's another hidden button somewhere that I can't visibly see that the code is "clicking" on. Not sure, so I guess my question really comes down to, is there a way where I can search for a button based on its value, type, and class?

Saifur · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-30 15:23:53Z

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Give the text based search a shot. That's my favourite

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[.='Next →')]").click()

With . we are directly pointing to parent in html hierarchy and * allows you to do a search without depending on any specific tag

answered Dec 30, 2014 at 15:23

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Stupid.Fat.Cat Over a year ago

I tried doing that, but the → character doesn't seem to be understood... :(

Saifur Over a year ago

In that case go for //button[contains(text(), 'Next')]

Saifur Over a year ago

Have you tried cssSelector [value='2'][class='_btn _btng']

Stupid.Fat.Cat Over a year ago

I have not tried using cssSelector, in the past it never seemed to work for me, but I'll give it a spin.

Saifur Over a year ago

As I said with * you are doing a tag independent search. You might have some other tag say for example a with same text that's why it was failing. Now with //button[....] you are just searching button tags eliminating others.

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aberna · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-30 15:32:01Z

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A solution could be:

buttons = self.driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//title[contains(text(),'Next')]")
actions = ActionChains(self.driver)
time.sleep(2)
actions.click(button)
actions.perform()

Documentation on Selenium Action Chain here: http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html#module-selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains

edited Dec 30, 2014 at 15:32

answered Dec 30, 2014 at 15:17

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Stupid.Fat.Cat Over a year ago

Could you explain exactly what that's doing?

aberna Over a year ago

find the button with "next" text , create an action chain, press the button. There is even a delay by using the time sleep in case there is code loaded by ajax

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