Trying to find and click link in Selenium with Python

Question

I have a page that contains the following line of html

<td><span><a onClick="setSummaryClasses(3)">Reality</a></span></td>

Copied from the FF Source panel. I try to click the anchor with

driver.find_element_by_link_text('Reality').click()

and I get a

NoSuchElementException: Message: u'Unable to locate element: {"method":"link text","selector":"Reality"}'

What am I missing?

I have both

driver.set_script_timeout(10)
driver.implicitly_wait(10) # seconds

active.

What selenium driver are you using?

alonisser
– alonisser

2014-04-21 00:11:53 +00:00
Commented Apr 21, 2014 at 0:11 — alonisser
– alonisser, Commented Apr 21, 2014 at 0:11

Yi Zeng · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-21 00:08:16Z

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Ensure the link isn't inside any kind of frames. Otherwise please use switch_to_frame first.
When you match link text, bear in mind it does exact match, so if you have messy whitespaces, please try find_element_by_partial_link_text
```
driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text('Reality').click()
```

Changing locators might also be helpful.

driver.find_element_by_css_selector("a[onClick='setSummaryClasses(3)']").click()

answered Apr 21, 2014 at 0:08

Yi Zeng

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Ian Over a year ago

And ensure the current window in Selenium is the window you think it is :).

Ian · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-21 10:45:22Z

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Thanks to user1177636, I realised that, when a click opens a window, in the LIVE situation the new window becomes the current "top" window, while in Selenium it doesn't.

Therefore I needed to

driver.switch_to_window('Chat23')

before looking for the element.

Hope this helps somebody.

answered Apr 21, 2014 at 10:45

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