selenium with python : InvalidSelectorException

Question

Using this code :

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys


browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://www.booking.com')  
browser.find_element_by_id('ss').send_keys("Galway")
browser.find_element_by_class_name('xp__dates-inner').click()
browser.find_element_by_css_selector('data-date=2019-05-14').click()

I'm attempting to select the element data-date="2019-05-14"

But receive exception :

InvalidSelectorException: Message: Given css selector expression "data-date=2019-05-14" is invalid: InvalidSelectorError: 'data-date=2019-05-14' is not a valid selector: "data-date=2019-05-14"

Have I set the id of the selector correctly?

Possible duplicate of In Selenium, how to handle InvalidSelectorException while log in website — ivan_pozdeev
– ivan_pozdeev, Commented May 11, 2019 at 11:26

KunduK · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-11 13:25:05Z

1

You were close.However when use any attribute with css selector you have to use parathesis [attribute="value"] excluding id and class. However you can use id and class without parenthesis.

browser.find_element_by_css_selector('[data-date="2019-05-14"]').click()

answered May 11, 2019 at 13:25

KunduK

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