How to select the following element using selenium in python

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The element that I'm trying to select is the one below

<div id="mOnlineEligiblity" class="col span_1_of_3" style="">
  <a href="onlineElig.html" style="text-decoration: none !important;color: #275883;"><img src="../../images/mobileHome/Newicon/OnlineEligibility.png" height="65px" width="65px" class="morph">
  <br> Online Eligibility </a>
</div>

I tried the following to select it, but it says element not found

driver.find_element_by_id("mOnlineEligiblity")

NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"[id="mOnlineEligiblity"]"}

I want to be able to select and click on it

EDIT: -

It is present inside an iframe like Swaroop mentioned, attaching the image for reference

Do you know if it exists when you are running that bit of code? As a hacky test, sleep 5 seconds and then continue. — Cfomodz
– Cfomodz, Commented Mar 30, 2022 at 6:52
Might be your element is in the iframe. Switch to that iframe and then search. — Swaroop Humane
– Swaroop Humane, Commented Mar 30, 2022 at 6:52
Okay then switch to that iframe and then search for this element, you will definitely find it. Cheers..!! This Thread might help you. — Swaroop Humane
– Swaroop Humane, Commented Mar 30, 2022 at 7:39
@Cfomodz, and Swaroop thank you for the help, I was able to solve it :) — dpacman
– dpacman, Commented Mar 30, 2022 at 7:39
@dpacman Well done and glad you got it! Swaroop, nice intuition on what was going on - he had the answer for your first try ;) — Cfomodz
– Cfomodz, Commented Mar 30, 2022 at 7:54

dpacman · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-30 07:41:57Z

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Had to switch to the iframe like Swaroop mentioned.

# Find the iframe
iframe = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//iframe[@name='NAME_OF_THE_FRAME']")

# Switch to the iframe
driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)

# Now find the element
driver.find_element_by_id("mOnlineEligiblity").click()

answered Mar 30, 2022 at 7:41

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Cfomodz · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-30 07:50:26Z

As long as it is indeed on the page that you are loading (isn't in an iframe), then you shouldn't have any issue locating it and clicking on it.

import platform
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
if platform == "linux" or platform == "linux2":
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='chromedriver_linux', chrome_options=options)
elif platform == "darwin":
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='chromedriver_mac', chrome_options=options)
else:
    driver = webdriver.Firefox()

    driver.maximize_window()

    timeout = 10

    driver.get("file:///G:/Downloads/random.html")

    xpath = '//*[@id="mOnlineEligiblity"]/a'
    WebDriverWait(driver, timeout).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, xpath)))

    link_to_click = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, XPath)

    link_to_click.click()

    driver.quit()

I would still suggest targeting the element that you actually want to click on via the xpath = '//*[@id="mOnlineEligiblity"]/a' instead of just xpath = '//*[@id="mOnlineEligiblity"]' but that's more of a best practice than anything you need to worry about if it's a one-off script.

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