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Ram
Ram

Reputation: 1

Selenium Python, Web driver wait locates an element, find element does not

Below code works fine in firefox without the sleep(1). But in chrome, driver.find_element_by_xpath fails. If there is sleep(1) in between, then it works. 

//the wait below passes fine for both Chrome and Firefox.

WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="taketour"]/div/div[1]/a/span')))

//In chrome this does not find the element.Works in firefox.

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="taketour"]/div/div[1]/a/span').click()

In chrome shows a

ElementNotVisibleException: Message: Message: element not visible

Below code works in both Chrome and Firefox

WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="taketour"]/div/div[1]/a/span')))

sleep (1)

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="taketour"]/div/div[1]/a/span').click()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2705

Answers (1)

Mobrockers
Mobrockers

Reputation: 2148

You cannot click on an element that is not yet visible, use expected condition visibility_of_element_located instead:

// Wait until element is visible    
WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="taketour"]/div/div[1]/a/span')))

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="taketour"]/div/div[1]/a/span').click()

Or better yet, since you're trying to click on it, you can also wait until element is clickable:

// Wait until element is clickable
WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="taketour"]/div/div[1]/a/span')))

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="taketour"]/div/div[1]/a/span').click()

See Expected Conditions for more built convenience methods you can use to check for element states.

Upvotes: 2

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