Selenium python click button

Question

I just can't make the button click and go the the next page. I tried the following so far

<div class="step__footer">
<button class="step__footer__continue-btn btn " type="submit" name="button">
<span class="btn__content">Continue to payment method</span>
<i class="btn__spinner icon icon--button-spinner"></i>
</button>
<a class="step__footer__previous-link" href="https://checkout.shopify.com/946304/checkouts/1b6e3391268707abb18850300b89e59?step=contact_information">
<svg class="previous-link__icon icon--chevron icon" viewBox="0 0 6.7 11.3" height="11.3" width="6.7" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
Return to customer information
</a>
</div>

driver = webdriver.Firefox()

driver.implicitly_wait(1) # seconds
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("step__footer__continue-btn btn").click()
driver.implicitly_wait(1) # seconds
driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/form/div[2]/button").click()
driver.implicitly_wait(1) # seconds
driver.find_element_by_name("button").click()
driver.implicitly_wait(1) # seconds
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
driver.implicitly_wait(1) # seconds
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div.step__footer>button").click()
driver.implicitly_wait(1) # seconds
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("html.multi-step.mac.firefox.desktop.page--no-banner.page--logo-main.page--show.js.flexbox.flexboxlegacy.rgba.multiplebgs.boxshadow.opacity.cssanimations.csstransitions.generatedcontent.svg.inlinesvg.cors.boxsizing.display-table.pointerevents.placeholder.mediaqueries.floating-labels body div.content div.wrap div.main div.main__content div.step form.edit_checkout.animate-floating-labels div.step__footer button.step__footer__continue-btn.btn").click()
driver.implicitly_wait(1) # seconds
driver.find_element_by_link_text("Continue to payment method").click()
driver.implicitly_wait(1) # seconds
driver.find_elements_by_class_name("step__footer__continue-btn btn ").click()
driver.implicitly_wait(1) # seconds
driver.findElementByXpath("//div[@type='submit'][@name='button']").click();

EDIT
The key was to relocate the elements, to reload. Since I was clicking through a form, the underlying code changed. the driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@type='submit'][@name='button']").click() could not find elements because of that. After reloading with driver.get ("%s/%s:%s" % (str(sys.argv[4]), str(sys.argv[2]), str(sys.argv[3]))) it worked.

Also look at the log in case some badly formatted command interrupts the flow.

Guy · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-31 09:00:01Z

1

You have many mistakes in your selectors, try one of those

driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".step__footer__continue-btn.btn").click() # for class with css_selector you need '.' in the beginning
driver.find_element_by_class_name("step__footer__continue-btn").click() # by_class_name gets only one class
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@type='submit'][@name='button']").click() # type='submit' and name='button' are <button> tag attributes, not div

You can also try using explicit wait

WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(expected_conditions.visibility_of_element_located((By.class_name, "step__footer__continue-btn"))).click()

Edit

Sometimes button element area is wider than the element that can receive click. You can try to click on elements in "lower" level

driver.find_element_by_class_name("btn__content").click() # <span> tag
# or
driver.find_element_by_class_name("btn__spinner").click() # <i> tag

edited Jan 31, 2016 at 9:00

answered Jan 31, 2016 at 8:42

Guy

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5 Comments

Zsolt Over a year ago

doesn't work for some reason. it won't jump to the next page. I tried all, including the explicit wait. maybe the page source is different than firebug shows. I try printing it with print(driver.page_source), but for some reason I can't see the log

Zsolt Over a year ago

thanks guy. I just tried again, still doesn't react. I am trying to print the source as the driver sees it. maybe it is different than what FireBug display when I examine it manually when the script stops at the step in question.

Zsolt Over a year ago

driver.find_elements_by_class_name("btn__content").click() # <span> tag AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'click' driver.find_elements_by_class_name("btn__spinner").click() # <i> tag AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'click' I will try your original entries again. The print(driver.page_source) command might have interrupted the script.

Guy Over a year ago

@Zsolt try using the updated driver.find_element methods with the explicit wait.

Zsolt Over a year ago

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