How to access a button inside a <div> container using selenium in python

Question

I want to access a button inside a 'div' tag but the problem is, there are two 'div' tags with same class name and one of them has the button. So how to identify which one has the button and access it. So far I tried to solve but I always get 'Unable to locate element' for button.

One is:

div class="weEq5" style="will-change; width;"

Another one is:

div class="weEq5"
    button class="_35EW6"

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– Andersson, Commented Dec 24, 2018 at 23:02

ewwink · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-25 00:00:13Z

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To find div contain button, first you need to select the button then go to parent element which is div

driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//button/parent::div[@class="weEq5"]')
# or
driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//button[@class="_35EW6"]/parent::div[@class="weEq5"]')

edited Dec 25, 2018 at 0:00

answered Dec 24, 2018 at 22:38

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Andersson Over a year ago

You seem to be using BeautifulSoup syntax while OP is looking for Selenium solution

ewwink Over a year ago

my bad it is because I have multiple tab, @Andersson thanks for telling.

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-26 05:20:13Z

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To access the button inside the <div> you can use either of the Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

myElement = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div[class]:not(style)>button"))

Using XPATH:

myElement = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class and not (@style)]/button")

edited Dec 26, 2018 at 5:20

answered Dec 26, 2018 at 4:23

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