How can i click an <a> button inside 2 divs in selenium python?

Question

I'm trying to make selenium click Button1 but for some reasons, I get the following error:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element: Button1

I believe the error is happening because it is inside a div/ul/li tag but I can't either figure out how to do it, I'm stuck.

HTML:

<div id="contentArea">
<div class="pageNavigation" id="pageNavigation">
    <ul>
        <li>

            <a href="#">Button1</a>

        </li>
        <li class="last">       

            <a href="#">Button2</a> 
                                            
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>
</div>

Python Code:

from selenium import *

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.set_window_size(1366, 768, driver.window_handles[0])
driver.get("https://localhost/mypage/index.php")
driver.find_element_by_link_text('Button1').click()

Edit: I found out that the html is generated through javascript. my bad.

Herker · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-13 07:15:06Z

1

You can try the following methods

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[text()='Button1']").click()

Or try like you said, to locate the element inside div/ul/li

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='pageNavigation']/ul[1]/li[1]/a[1]").click()

And if that doesn't work for some reason, try with ActionChains

For that, you need to import the module

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

Then use it to click on the element,
this has been a life savior for me in some situations

action = ActionChains(driver)
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[text()='Button1']")
action.click(on_element=element).perform()

answered Apr 13, 2021 at 7:15

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hetox Over a year ago

Your response is great! But i think i found out why it isnt working, because the html is generated through javascript.

Herker Over a year ago

If that's the case you can try - driver.execute_script("document.getElementsByClassName('pageNavigation')[0].click()")

hetox Over a year ago

I get the following error sadly selenium.common.exceptions.JavascriptException: Message: TypeError: document.getElementsByClassName(...)[0] is undefined Anyway thanks for the help, im gonna figure it out somehow! :)

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