Selenium - not able to click button using Python

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I'm running into an issue trying to click on a specific button on my web application using Selenium with Python. The button shows up on a dialog that becomes available once another button is pressed.

For example, my form has the following section:

Once the 'Save Answers' button is pressed, an OK button shows up in a dialog above it.

I'm trying to click on this OK button, but it is not working as of right now. When I inspect this element on Chrome, I get the following items:

<div class="bootbox modal fade my-modal in" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" style="display: block;">
<div class="modal-dialog">
<div class="modal-content">
<div class="modal-body">
<div class="bootbox-body">Your answers have been saved.</div>
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<button data-bb-handler="cancel" type="button" class="btn btn btn-primary">OK</button>
</div></div></div></div>

With <button data-bb-handler="cancel" type="button" class="btn btn btn-primary">OK</button> being the button I am trying to click.

I am using the following Python code to try this:

driver.find_element_by_id("saveQuestionsSection").click() #click Save Answer
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@type='button']").click() #click OK

But it is not working. I have tried to replicate this step using Selenium IDE and it works there, with the command looking like this:

Command: click

Target: xpath=(//button[@type='button'])[26]

But I am not sure how to translate this into Python code.

Any ideas?

Prany · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-16 15:02:13Z

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Use CSS selector.

find_element_by_css_selector(".btn").click()

answered May 16, 2018 at 15:02

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FlameDra Over a year ago

How can I get the css selector id from Inspect Element in Chrome?

Prany Over a year ago

here are steps @FlameDra -- 1 )Hover the cursor over the element and right click mouse. 2) Select ‘Inspect Element’. 3) See the highlighted element code. 4) Right click on the highlighted code. 5) Select ‘Copy CSS Path’

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-16 15:02:45Z

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Try to wait until modal window with OK button appeared:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

driver.find_element_by_id("saveQuestionsSection").click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[text()='OK']"))).click()

edited May 16, 2018 at 15:02

answered May 16, 2018 at 14:50

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FlameDra Over a year ago

I tried your code, but it doesn't work and gives the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 98, in <module> WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@type='button']"))).click() File "C:\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\wait.py", line 80, in until raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

Andersson Over a year ago

Are you sure that "//button[@type='button']" works fine in IDE? Try with more specific XPath "//button[text()='OK']"

FlameDra Over a year ago

In IDE the target is xpath=(//button[@type='button'])[26] and it works. Not sure how to translate this to Python.

Andersson Over a year ago

Oh, that's mean that there are at least 26 buttons with the same selector... This seem to be bad XPath :)

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-16 15:48:41Z

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As per the HTML you have provided to click on the button with text as OK you can use the following lines of code :

//imports
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
// other lines of code
driver.find_element_by_id("saveQuestionsSection").click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='bootbox modal fade my-modal in']//div[@class='modal-footer']/button[@class='btn btn btn-primary' and contains(.,'OK')]"))).click()

answered May 16, 2018 at 15:48

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cruisepandey · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-16 16:07:36Z

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try this :

driver.find_element_by_id("saveQuestionsSection").click() #click Save Answer
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "button[text()='OK']"))  
element.click()

OR

driver.find_element_by_id("saveQuestionsSection").click() #click Save Answer
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "(//button[@type='button'])[26]"))  
element.click()

answered May 16, 2018 at 16:07

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cruisepandey Over a year ago

@FlameDra : try both of them , it may resolve your issue.

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