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cdub
cdub

Reputation: 410

Invalid Selector Error using CSS Selector and href

I am trying to find an element using css selector and href with a partail link but I keep getting an invalid selector error

What am I doing wrong?

<a href="javascript:shipdateCheck('updateShipDate',#####,'false');" class="actionlink2">
    <img src="images/save-16x16.bmp" width="12px" height="12px" alt="Update 
     Ship Date For ######" border="0">
</a>

the ##### is a number as a string that is randomly generated.

date_save = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('a[href*="javascript:shipdateCheck("updateShipDate","]')

Upvotes: 0

Views: 449

Answers (2)

Jortega
Jortega

Reputation: 3790

You have a typo of having a * in href. Also if you do not use the actual equals value then you can use contains. If you have double quotes inside double quotes you need to escape them with \".

date_save = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('a[contains(@href, "javascript:shipdateCheck(\"updateShipDate\",")]')

Upvotes: 1

KunduK
KunduK

Reputation: 33384

To click on anchor tag induce WebDriverWait() and element_to_be_clickable() and following css selector.

WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"a[href*=\"javascript:shipdateCheck('updateShipDate'\"]"))).click()

You need to import following libraries.

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

Upvotes: 0

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