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SFro
SFro

Reputation: 131

Clicking button within span with no ID using Selenium

I'm trying to have click a button in the browser with Selenium and Python.

The button is within the following 

<div id="generate">
    <i class="fa fa-bolt"></i>
            <span>Download Slides</span>
    <div class="clear"></div>
</div>

Chrome's dev console tells me the button is within <span> but I have no idea how to reference the button for a .click().

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1185

Answers (1)

Remi Guan
Remi Guan

Reputation: 22292

Well, if you just want to click on an element without an id or name, I'd suggest three ways to do it:

  1. use xpath: 

    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="generate"]/span')

  2. use CSS selector:

    driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#generate > span')

  3. Just try .find_element_by_tag_name() like:

    driver.find_element_by_id('generate').find_elements_by_tag_name('span')[0]

    Note that this way first try to get the generate <div> element by it's id, and then finds all the <span> elements under that <div>.

    Finally, gets the first <span> element use [0].

Upvotes: 2

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