Simulate Click event using selenium in python

Question

I am scraping some data from this link https://www.vbgov.com/property-search#DetailView=14760123360000. But i am unable to simulate click event on "Sales History & Tax Information" tab using webdriver Selenium and python.

driver.get("https://www.vbgov.com/property-search#")

searchBox1 = driver.find_element_by_id("consolidated-search-query")

searchBox1.send_keys("1124 LUKE DR")

searchBox1.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

driver.implicitly_wait(5)

link = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="property"]/tbody/tr/td[2]/a')

link.click()

elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="property-counts"]/h4')

tab = driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text("Sales History & Tax Information")
tab.click()

What error are you seeing, if any? Is find_element_by_partial_link_text() raising an error? Is click()? Or is it simply that nothing appears to happen in the browser? — Ian Lesperance
– Ian Lesperance, Commented Feb 11, 2018 at 21:30

Pradeep hebbar · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-11 16:13:19Z

You are trying to click on the 'Sales History & Tax Information tab' and its happening too , but it is happening while the page loads and after page load by default it is navigate to 'land/Building Information' tab. So here i am waiting for page to load before clicking on 'Sales History & Tax Information tab' by waiting till 'property blue prints' loads.

Using time.sleep before clicking 'Sales History & Tax Information tab' also works here but not preferable.

searchBox1 = driver.find_element_by_id("consolidated-search-query")
searchBox1.send_keys("1124 LUKE DR")
searchBox1.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
driver.implicitly_wait(5)
link = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="property"]/tbody/tr/td[2]/a')
link.click()
elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="property-counts"]/h4')
wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[text()='Land Information']")))
wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='band visible ready']")))
wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//a[text()='Sales History & Tax Information']"))).click()

Hope this will solve your problem.

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-11 15:38:20Z

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To simulate click event on Sales History & Tax Information tab, you can use the following line of code :

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//ul[@class='navbar nav-pills nav hasOverflow']//li[@role='tab']/a").click()

answered Feb 11, 2018 at 15:38

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Peter Malik Over a year ago

is <selenium element>.click() superior in any form to executing javascript, like driver.execute_script(document.querySelector(...).click())?

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