selenium error ElementNotVisibleException: element not visible

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i am trying to click on element in chrome driver browser using python and selenium. when trying to click i get the element not visible exception. this is html code:

 <div class="mid-content"><ul><li><b><span>Private</span><span><!-- react-text: 715 --> (<!-- /react-text --><!-- react-text: 716 -->
3<!-- /react-text --><!-- react-text: 717 -->)
<!-- /react-text --></span></b></li><li><img alt="" src="../img/UserProfile/lock.svg" width="18" height="24"></li><li class="bottom-title">Request to View</li></ul></div>

this is how click by xpath:

browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="App-content"]/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[3]/div/div/a/div/ul')

its not working. but if i click in chrome driver browser manually first and then run this line of code it's everything working fine. What's the trick?please help me to solve this problem.

There are multiple elements within the html you have shared, which element are you trying to locate? — undetected Selenium
– undetected Selenium, Commented Aug 27, 2018 at 13:39
When you post HTML and/or code please take a minute to use a beautifier like jsbeautifier.org or your IDE to properly format everything. If you need help properly formatting it on the site, see the formatting help link in the sidebar of the question editor. It makes it a LOT easier to read which makes your question more likely to get answered. Thanks! — JeffC
– JeffC, Commented Aug 27, 2018 at 18:49

Sers · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-30 00:04:01Z

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Find different examples below how you can locate ul element.

Get ul element by css selector:

browser.find_element_css_selector('#App-content .mid-content ul')

Get ul element that contains "Private" and "3" texts:

browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="App-content"]//ul[contains(.,"Private") and contains(.,"3")]')

Get ul element that contains li with "Request to View" text and has child img tag:

browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="App-content"]//ul[./li[.="Request to View"] and .//img]')

edited Aug 30, 2018 at 0:04

answered Aug 27, 2018 at 14:55

Sers

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