How to click a button that has a dynamic ID using selenium Python

Question

Im trying to press a button using selenium but the ID is generated every time I access the website. I've tried using the xpath and Css selectors that I get from Google Chrome but it appears to be using the ID so its unreliable. Heres the Html Code

<ul data-componentname="gender">

  <li id="4ed02d40-a727-4c69-9bb6-b39bcb752bfc" class="">
    <input type="button">
    <span>Male</span>
  </li>

  <li id="76e7055e-ac37-4d12-bec3-27f9ca3410c0" class="">
    <input type="button">
    <span>Female</span>
  </li>

KunduK · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-09 18:11:10Z

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To Click on Male or Female button induce WebDriverWait and element_to_be_clickable and following xpath

To click on Male:

WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//ul[@data-componentname='gender']//li[./span[text()='Male']]/input[@type='button']"))).click()

To click on Female:

WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//ul[@data-componentname='gender']//li[./span[text()='Female']]/input[@type='button']"))).click()

Note: You need to imports followings.

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

EDITED

elementmale=WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//ul[@data-componentname='gender']//li[./span[text()='Male']]/input[@type='button']")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", elementmale)

edited Sep 9, 2019 at 18:11

answered Sep 9, 2019 at 18:04

KunduK

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2 Comments

NinoSoles Over a year ago

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: element click intercepted: Element <input type="button"> is not clickable at point (684, 332). Other element would receive the click: <span>...</span> (Session info: chrome=76.0.3809.132)

KunduK Over a year ago

Use JavaScript executor to click on this.check my updated code.

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