Clicking an element in Selenium 2 webdriver with Python

Question

I have looked at the Selenium documentation and can not find an example of clicking on an element. I inspected an element named attatchments.

Everytime I attempt to click the element Python gives me an error usually one of these:

{'using': by, 'value': value})['value'] File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.24.0-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 155, in execute self.error_handler.check_response(response) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.24.0-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 147, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) NoSuchElementException: Message: u'Unable to locate element: {"method":"name","selector":"add individuals"}'

Here is the code I am trying:

driver.find_element_by_name("attatchments")
elem.click()

Gaël Barbin · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-04 07:42:12Z

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If you know element id then you can get it as

element = driver.find_element(by=By.ID, value="element_id")

Or

element = driver.find_element_by_id("element_id")

and then use element.click()

You can go through this link to know the methods in Webdriver class: http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/py/webdriver_remote/selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver.html

edited May 4, 2015 at 7:42

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user1622681 Over a year ago

elem = driver.find_element("attatchments") elem.click() WHen I inspect I see attatchments for input. shows exception class Unsupported locator startegy attatchments? Any help is appreciated do i need a wait? if so how do i write a quick wait or is it another problem all together.

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