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Imad Kalboneh
Imad Kalboneh

Reputation: 35

Unable to click on element using Python Selenium

I'm working on a program that will help me select the 2nd option in the dropdown menu on https://www.pcfinancial.ca/ located in the upper-right corner of the window. Here's my code so far:

import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support import ui

driver = webdriver.Chrome() 

driver.get('https://www.pcfinancial.ca/');
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="lnkSignInOp"]').click() #click on dropdown menu - working
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="PCM"]/a').click() #select "pc mastercard" - not working

What's weird is I can access the dropdown menu using the first driver.find_elements_by_xpath(...) line but I get the following error when selecting the 2nd option. 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Imad\Documents\Programming\Python\test.py", line 10, in <module>
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="PCM"]/a').click() #open up dropdown menu works
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 80, in click
    self._execute(Command.CLICK_ELEMENT)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 501, in _execute
    return self._parent.execute(command, params)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 308, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 194, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: element not visible
  (Session info: chrome=63.0.3239.84)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.33.506120 (e3e53437346286c0bc2d2dc9aa4915ba81d9023f),platform=Windows NT 10.0.16299 x86_64)

Can anyone help me understand what's going on and how to fix this? Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 346

Answers (2)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193058

As per the WebSite the WebElement by the linkText PC MasterCard is within an <a> tag, so we will construct a unique xpath as follows :

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome() 
driver.get('https://www.pcfinancial.ca/');
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="lnkSignInOp"]').click() #click on dropdown menu - working
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@href='#PCM' and @rel='/re_register/index.html']").click() #click on "PC MasterCard" - now working
print("Clicked on PC MasterCard")

Upvotes: 0

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 473753

This is the classic case of a timing issue. After you open the dropdown, wait for the menu link to be clickable with WebDriverWait and element_to_be_clickable expected condition:

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


driver = webdriver.Chrome()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)

driver.get('https://www.pcfinancial.ca/')
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="lnkSignInOp"]').click()


wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#PCM a"))).click()

Upvotes: 2

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