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JOE_D
JOE_D

Reputation: 21

Another button that is not clicking

Below is the HTML of the button I am trying to click with various options but its not working:

<button data-ng-click="Question.setAnswer(button.value,button.attemptNext)" class="btn btn-sm btn-primary " type="button">No</button>

I tried the following

new WebDriverWait(driver, 0).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//input[@class='btn btn-sm btn-primary' and @value='No']"))).click();

but its not working TIA

Here is the console information. i have been seeing the webdriver error before I added the line Only local connections are allowed. Please protect ports used by ChromeDriver and related test frameworks to prevent access by malicious code. Jan 27, 2020 1:03:02 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession INFO: Detected dialect: W3C WebDriverException occured

Upvotes: 0

Views: 69

Answers (2)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193068

You seem to pretty close. The <button> element doesn't have a value attribute but have the innerText as No

Additionally, WebDriverWait for the duration of 0 isn't an ideal configuration and must be set to a positive value.

However, the desired element is a Angular element so to so to locate/interact with the element 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, "button.btn.btn-sm.btn-primary[data-ng-click*='attemptNext']"))).click()

  • Using XPATH:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@class='btn btn-sm btn-primary ' and text()='No']"))).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

Update

I don't see any such error from the stacktrace you have provided. As you are still unable to click on the element inducing WebDriverWait as an alternative you can use execute_script() as follows:

  • cssSelector:

    element_css = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.btn.btn-sm.btn-primary[data-ng-click*='attemptNext']")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", element_css)

  • xpath:

    element_xpath = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@class='btn btn-sm btn-primary ' and text()='No']")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", element_xpath)

Upvotes: 0

Guy
Guy

Reputation: 50809

No is the text, not the value. Use

new WebDriverWait(driver, 0).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//input[@class='btn btn-sm btn-primary' and .='No']"))).click();

Upvotes: 1

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