Python Selenium click button in div

Question

So im making a script that clicks some buttons for me in a web browser.

Importing the selenium driver:

from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:/Python27/Scripts/chromedriver.exe')

In this example, When i want to click on the "leave hotel" button, i can just use the css_selector and it works fine.

<div id="canvas">  
<!--<a onclick="leave_hotel();" name="go_ut" onmousedown="signature.push([Math.floor(Date.now()), 'click']);" class="hotel-button-out">-->
<a onclick="leave_hotel();" name="go_ut" onmousedown="" class="hotel-button-out">Sjekk ut <span style="font-size:0.7em" id="hotell_tid">(23 t 55 m)</span></a>
        <input type="hidden" name="t" value="cb5a965fbb0a3578344aec059afa7246">
        <input type="hidden" name="xy" id="xy" value="">
        <input type="hidden" name="ltoken" value="ea782433046a2e254b10db5045b55d02">
        <input type="hidden" value="633eacc2bbe92004ba03c9dd57ff9457" name="ttoken">
        <input type="hidden" name="jtoken" id="jtoken" value=""> 
</div>

Something like this worked fine:

browser.find_element_by_css_selector('#canvas > a').click()

But when i try to click a button within a div on another page, it does not work. the html looks like this:

<div class="canvas hotel-out">
<input class=" btn btn-block" name="enkel_knapp" onmousedown="krim_enkel_bego(2);" type="button" id="submit" value="Begå kriminaliteten!">
<input type="hidden" name="ltoken" value="e386d141ff442655d48275e0269fe1fe">
<input type="hidden" value="2b61bc54fe84d18ae5ad797826152e32" name="ttoken">
<input type="hidden" name="jtoken" id="jtoken" value="">                        
<input type="hidden" id="xy" value="nytt system (ingen koordinater)" name="xy">
</div>

But the problem is that the buttons xpath is simliar to 3 other buttons. all three buttons got the xpath "//*[@id="submit"]". I guess there is some kind of conflict here?

When i try to do it by name like this i get no respose:

browser.find_element_by_name('enkel_knapp').click()

Nothing when i do it by ID either:

browser.find_element_by_id('submit').click()

Anyone got any tips to filter by div or something?

The error i get: Pastebin

can you try xpath //*[@id="submit"] in developer tool of browser to see this xpath can find only one or several elements? if find more than one elements try below code: browser.find_element_by_css_selector("div.canvas > input#submit") — yong
– yong, Commented Oct 10, 2017 at 23:03
Are you waiting for the element to load before trying to click it? stackoverflow.com/questions/30339643/… — Slater Victoroff
– Slater Victoroff, Commented Oct 10, 2017 at 23:06
Sorry guys, was still editing the post, can you just look over and see if anything changed? i will test what you guys just wrote asap. — Asphaug
– Asphaug, Commented Oct 10, 2017 at 23:07
@SlaterTyranus I manually type the command into the shell, long after the site has loaded and such, if that i what you meant? Im really not a python pro, neither a selenium pro, so sorry. — Asphaug
– Asphaug, Commented Oct 10, 2017 at 23:09
@yong When i type "xpath //*[@id="submit"]" in console i just get "Uncaught ReferenceError: xpath is not defined at <anonymous>:1:1" and "browser.find_element_by_css_selector("div.canvas > input#submit")" Gave me the same error as in pastebin. — Asphaug
– Asphaug, Commented Oct 10, 2017 at 23:13

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-11 06:30:07Z

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As you mentioned in your Question that the xpath //*[@id="submit"] is not unique and similar to 3 other buttons hence we need to construct either a unique css_selector or a xpath for this button as follows:

css_selector

browser.find_element_by_css_selector("div.canvas.hotel-out > input#submit").click()

xpath

browser.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='canvas hotel-out']/input[@id='submit']").click()

answered Oct 11, 2017 at 6:30

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Asphaug Over a year ago

Still just get the same error as i do in the pastebin, or a very similar one. After a nights sleep i think that its important to mention that the site im trying to click buttons on is a php/js site, i never refresh the site or change the actuall url. I just change tabs within the same site, kindof.

Asphaug Over a year ago

hey @DebanjanB, i just found out that the button im trying to click is under some kind of "tab". When i right click the "tab" and open it as a new site, i get a more advanced url, and the whole website is just that tab. When i then try to .click() the button, it works just fine. How can i make the xpath go into that "url" and click the button without me having to have diffrent sites for diffrent "tabs"? Thanks alot for the help so far!

Asphaug Over a year ago

It just redirects me to a new .php site.

Maddy8381 Over a year ago

If we dont have browser object we can use webdriver object to access element by id.

undetected Selenium Over a year ago

@Maddy8381 Here the object referred as browser is not a browser type object, but actually the webdriver object. A lot of newbie users tends to name the webdriver object as browser.

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