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Lara19
Lara19

Reputation: 699

Python: Webdriver is not working with css_selector

I tried to use webdriver to login to two websites, A and B. But when I use the same way "find_element_by_css_selector", B was not working while A was working. I turned the javascript off, and find B's login section disappeared.

A's html:

<button type="submit" class="width-35 pull-right btn btn-sm btn-primary">
  <i class="ace-icon fa fa-key"></i>
  <span class="bigger-110">Login</span>
</button>

Code of A is working well:

submit=driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".width-35.pull-right.btn.btn-sm.btn-primary").click()

B's html:

<a class="login-btn" href="javascript:;" data-bind="click: loginSection.loginClick">
  <span class="btn-text">Login</span>
</a>

Code of B is not working:

submit=driver.find_element_by_css_selector("a.login-btn > span.btn-text").click()

Error says:

ElementNotVisibleException: Message: element not visible

I posted another question before, Python: find_element_by_css_selector, and someone suggested me to use "find_elements_by_link_text" and it works, but it only works with that one. I would still like to know how to solve this problem. Thanks!

Updated:

Link=WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@class='login-btn'][@class='login-btn']"))).click()

Error:

TimeoutException: Message:

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1823

Answers (2)

Ali
Ali

Reputation: 1357

I used the time.sleep() delay approach and it actually worked on my end. 

from selenium import webdriver
import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://www.easyauction.com.tw/index.html')

########
# Username and password go here
########

time.sleep(10)
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#IndexLogin > div > form > a.login-btn > span').click()
driver.quit()

Upvotes: 0

Andersson
Andersson

Reputation: 52665

While you've already got an accepted answer, I want you to know the root cause of your issue

There are 2 links with the same class names: first one is hidden. You can check it with len(driver.find_elements_by_class_name("login-btn")).

That's why your code

Link=WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@class='login-btn'][@class='login-btn']"))).click()

gives you TimeOutException - hidden element cannot be clickable

You can fix it by specifying index of button:

Link = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "(//a[@class='login-btn'])[2]")))
Link.click()

or using search by link text:

Link = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "確定登入")))
Link.click()

Note that search by link text will skip hidden link and handle only the visible one

Upvotes: 3

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