Clicking JavaScript links in Selenium WebDriver and Python

Question

I am using Selenium Webdriver in Python and I got stuck trying to activate a javascript button.

What I need to do here is to click the Go to Previous Month button twice so that I have August 2014. And then I need to click on one of the days.

The images below show the code. Please tell me if I need to provide more info.

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THIS IS THE "GO TO PREVIOUS MONTH BUTTON" + INSPECT ELEMENT

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AND HERE I'VE CLICKED ON THE 1ST OF AUGUST + INSPECT ELEMENT ON "1"

How do I do it?

Find a element by title using css selectors and do the click() event on the returned element? — Mikko Ohtamaa
– Mikko Ohtamaa, Commented Oct 15, 2014 at 8:46
Cool! No problem - clarified the answer in the Answer section. — Mikko Ohtamaa
– Mikko Ohtamaa, Commented Oct 15, 2014 at 8:56

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:09:23Z

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First find your element with CSS selectors (you need to be familiar how CSS selectors work - this is prerequisite for most web development):

elem = webdriver.find_element_by_css_selector("a[title='Go to previous month']")[0]

Related WebDriver documentantion.

Then when you get your elem (there might paeg loading time, etc. issues you need to deal with) you can click it.

 elem.click()

See also: Wait for page load in Selenium

Related click() documentation.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:09

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3 Comments

Alichino Over a year ago

Oh, I forgot to mention that there are actually two calendars on that page, and both have "Go to the previous month" as title of the "<" button... I guess I need to be more specific exactly where I want to press the button. Using xpath?

Mikko Ohtamaa Over a year ago

find_element_by_css_selector() returns multiple elements. Just pick the first or the last one.

Alichino Over a year ago

It's taken a few days, but I finally got it :D Thanks!

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