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Franco Pagella
Franco Pagella

Reputation: 128

My selenium program fails to find element

I am trying to perform a web automatization with python and selenium in chrome. The thing is im trying to locate a button which has not id or class name.

The xpath is:

 //*[@id="Form1"]/table[1]/tbody/tr/td/div/div[2]/table/tbody/tr[3]/td/span[1]

And the html code is

<span class="SectionMethod" onclick="window.location.href=&quot;explorer/explorer.aspx?root=user&quot;;" style="cursor:pointer;text-decoration:underline;color:CadetBlue;">Open</span>

It's a button called open, but there are other buttons like that one with the same text and class so i cant locate by text.

This is my code:

from selenium import webdriver


driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chromeOptions, desired_capabilities=chromeOptions.to_capabilities())

driver.get("..............") 


driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="Form1"]/table[1]/tbody/tr/td/div/div[2]/table/tbody/tr[3]/td/span[1]')

This is the error i am getting:

NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"Form1"}
  (Session info: chrome=75.0.3770.100)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=74.0.3729.6 (255758eccf3d244491b8a1317aa76e1ce10d57e9-refs/branch-heads/3729@{#29}),platform=Windows NT 10.0.16299 x86_64).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 322

Answers (3)

Reedinationer
Reedinationer

Reputation: 5774

It's likely you are looking for an element before it has loaded. As per the example from the documentation

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.Firefox()
driver.get("http://somedomain/url_that_delays_loading")
try:
    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "myDynamicElement"))
    )
finally:
    driver.quit()

In your case:

EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "myDynamicElement"))

Will be

EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="Form1"]/table[1]/tbody/tr/td/div/div[2]/table/tbody/tr[3]/td/span[1]'))

Upvotes: 3

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193308

Presumably you are trying to click() on the <span> element with text as Open and to achieve that you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following solutions:

  • Using CSS_SELECTOR:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "span.SectionMethod[onclick*='explorer/explorer']"))).click()

  • Using XPATH:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[@class='SectionMethod' and contains(@onclick,'explorer/explorer')][text()='Open']"))).click()

  • Note : You have to add the following imports :

    from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

Additionally, as you are using chrome=75.0.3770.100 you need to update ChromeDriver to ChromeDriver 75.0.3770.90 (2019-06-13)

Upvotes: 1

IPolnik
IPolnik

Reputation: 649

Your correct xpath is:

//span[@class='SectionMethod' and text() = 'Open']

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Upvotes: 1

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