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pythonselenium
td.mart
td.mart

Reputation: 137

Selenium not clicking element

I have the following checkbox element:

<input checked="checked" class="iceSelBoolChkbx" 
id="mainContentId:newSerchCheckBox" name="mainContentId:newSerchCheckBox" 
onblur="setFocus('');" 
onclick="var form=formOf(this);iceSubmitPartial(form, this, event);" 
onfocus="setFocus(this.id);" 
onkeypress="var form = formOf(this);
Ice.util.radioCheckboxEnter(form,this,event);" 
type="checkbox">

I currently am locating the element and attempting to click it using

check_box = driver.find_element_by_id('mainContentId:newSerchCheckBox')
check_box.click()

When I run the code it runs without any errors but on the site the checkbox is still unchecked. What could be causing this and is their an alternative way to check the box?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 97

Answers (2)

JimmyA
JimmyA

Reputation: 686

Try replacing click with mousedown, I don't know what the underlying difference is but it resolved the issue I was having with click().

driver.execute_script('$("#mainContentId:newSerchCheckBox").trigger("mousedown")')

Let me know if you're thrown an error and we can re-write it in pure Javascript rather than relying on jQuery.

Upvotes: 2

KunduK
KunduK

Reputation: 33384

I think your checkbox is already selected if you see the input tag checked="checked".So you need to check first whether selected or not.If selected do not click.

element=driver.find_element_by_id("mainContentId:newSerchCheckBox")
if element.is_selected():
    print('Check box is already selected')
else:
    element.click()

Upvotes: 0

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