Selecting element with selenium python

Question

We need to click from 1 to 50 respectively

number elements:

1 - <span class="box" style="z-index:99"></span>
2 - <span class="box" style="z-index:98"></span>
3 - <span class="box" style="z-index:97"></span>
4 - <span class="box" style="z-index:96"></span>
5 - <span class="box" style="z-index:95"></span>
6 - <span class="box" style="z-index:94"></span>
7 - <span class="box" style="z-index:93"></span>
8 - <span class="box" style="z-index:92"></span>

My Code :

import time
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://zzzscore.com/1to50/en/?ts=1585514800920")

time.sleep(2)

element_list = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("[style^=index]")

i = 99
while i > 50:
    element_list[i].click()

I want the code to click numbers from 1 to 50 respectively, You can see the elements of the numbers in the attachment, I want to use the pattern (index 99 in element 1, index 98 in element 2...) between the elements, but I couldn't

Can we see your code so far?

Thaer A
– Thaer A

2020-03-29 23:13:23 +00:00
Commented Mar 29, 2020 at 23:13 — Thaer A
– Thaer A, Commented Mar 29, 2020 at 23:13
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AMC
– AMC

2020-03-30 00:31:47 +00:00
Commented Mar 30, 2020 at 0:31 — AMC
– AMC, Commented Mar 30, 2020 at 0:31

Trapli · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-30 10:15:34Z

There are at 3 problems in your code.

find_element_by_css_selector returns a single element, not a list. So you won't be able iterate trough the elements. To select multiple elements use a plural form like: find_elements_by_css_selector
the provided css selector is not valid
it seems that you assume that you'll receive the web elements sorted by z-index which is not the case

I recommend learning Xpath, it superior and more useful than css selectors (you may use it later on when you'll have the chance to parse XMLs). But even Xpath won't sort the elements by attribute values like z-index.

What you could do however:

find out how many elements should be clicked
in a for cycle iterate trough from 1 to the desired max
inside the for cycle fabricate a dynamic xpath via f-string to find your element:
- a div which contains the number you want to click as text div[text()="{i}"]
- and the div in question has a span which has a box class span[@class="box"]

So basically elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath(f'//*[text()="{i}"]/span[@class="box"]') should be the key for your task.

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