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jim jarnac
jim jarnac

Reputation: 5152

Selenium doesn't click on the top-most element

Consider the following Selenium automation:
Its goal is to go to a financial chart from the website Barchart, click on the custom calendar icon (at the top right corner over the chart), input a custom range in the form that pops up over it, and validated it using the apply button.

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
url = 'https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/AAPL/interactive-chart'
driver.get(url)
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.calendar-icon').click()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('option[label="Intraday"]').click()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('[data-ng-model="selectedAggregation.range.from"]').send_keys('11/01/2019')
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('[data-ng model="selectedAggregation.range.to"]').send_keys('11/01/2019')
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('[data-ng-model="selectedAggregation.range.to"]').send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('[data-ng-click="modalConfirm()"]').click()

It works fine for the most part, until I try to validate, which never works. I then realised that sometime this last action would lead me to a promotional page whose link is located exactly beneath the Apply button. Which seems to indicate that selenium 'click through' the form onto the link below.

I have tried other selector for the apply button, which all give the same result. I also try to use the submit() method from selenium, which returns an error. Lastly, I also try to implement the execute_script method from selenium, but I did not manage to understand what exactly is the javascript call being executed on clicking apply.

Note : this is because i need to get the cookie and xsrf token that is generated by that call, not because i need to collect the actual financial data ( I know that the financial data can be collected using 'https://www.barchart.com/proxies/timeseries/queryminutes.ashx?' + data), where data are the query string parameters.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 69

Answers (1)

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 533

I had a look for you, the below should accept the changes for you, I've checked this and it works for me.

javascript = 'document.querySelector("body > div.reveal-modal.fade.interactive-chart-modal-aggregation.in > div > div > div > button.bc-button.light-blue").click()'

driver.execute_script(javascript)

Upvotes: 1

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