Im trying to click on this for whole day with python selenium with no luck, tried several selectors, xpath..nothing seems to be work for me. This is the element I try to click on:
<span style="vertical-align: middle;">No</span>
Here is my obviously non function code
driver.find_element_by_link_text("No")
Search by link text can help you only if your span is a child of anchor tag, e.g. <a><span style="vertical-align: middle;">No</span></a>. As you're trying to click it, I believe it's really inside an anchor, but if not I'd suggest you to use XPath with predicate that returns True only if exact text content matched:
//span[text()="No"]
Note that //span[contains(text(), "No")] is quite unreliable solution as it will return span elements with text
etc...
If you get NoSuchElementException you might need to wait for element to appear in DOM:
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait as wait
wait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='No']"))).click()
I was doing something in my project too for Spotify. This is the function I wrote to select genders which are in span html tags.
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
import random
gender_male = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Male']")))
gender_female = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Female']")))
non_binary = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Non-binary']")))
other = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Other']")))
pnts = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Prefer not to say']")))
gender_guess = random.randint(1, 5)
if gender_guess == 1:
gender_male.click()
elif gender_guess == 2:
gender_female.click()
elif gender_guess == 3:
non_binary.click()
elif gender_guess == 4:
other.click()
elif gender_guess == 5:
pnts.click()
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
gender_male = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Male']")))
gender_female = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Female']")))
non_binary = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Non-binary']")))
other = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Other']")))
pnts = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='Prefer not to say']")))
gender_guess = random.randint(1, 5)
if gender_guess == 1:
gender_male.click()
elif gender_guess == 2:
gender_female.click()
elif gender_guess == 3:
non_binary.click()
elif gender_guess == 4:
other.click()
elif gender_guess == 5:
pnts.click()
Hopefully this helped.
