Need to find a way to click on the message button using selenium with python

Question

<button aria-label="Send message to Francesca Felder" class="message-anywhere-button mn-person-card__person-btn-ext button-secondary-medium link-without-visited-state" data-ember-action="" data-ember-action-1634="1634">
<span aria-hidden="true">Message</span>
<span class="visually-hidden">
    Send a message to Francesca Felder
</span>

Above is the button class I am trying to click using Selenium Webdriver.

I have tried doing this:

clickit = wait(browser, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[span='Send a message to']")))
clickit.click()

It doesn't work at all.

Try to click on the css selector - by.css("message-anywhere-button mn-person-card__person-btn-ext button-secondary-medium.link-without-visited-state") — Idan E
– Idan E, Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 22:13

Stack · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-19 09:43:20Z

1

Try this :

//button[span="Message"] Thanks to Andersson

//button//span[contains(text(), 'Send a message to')]

edited Jun 19, 2017 at 9:43

answered Jun 18, 2017 at 17:17

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greenee Over a year ago

Thank you for the reply, but I am getting this exception: raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

Stack Over a year ago

try this //span[contains(text(), 'Send a message to')] , or can you post the full page source, it will help a lot

greenee Over a year ago

Still doesnt work and sure this is the source of the message button class, it's also in the question as well but here it is: <button aria-label="Send message to Francesca Felder" class="message-anywhere-button mn-person-card__person-btn-ext button-secondary-medium link-without-visited-state" data-ember-action="" data-ember-action-1634="1634"> <span aria-hidden="true">Message</span> <span class="visually-hidden"> Send a message to Francesca Felder </span>

Stack Over a year ago

paste the entire web page source, there might be multiple elements which the current selector is selecting, so complete source

Stack Over a year ago

please try this and see , //button[contains(@aria-label, 'Send message to')]

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