find submit button in selenium without id

Question

I have a button

<input type="submit" class="button button_main" style="margin-left: 1.5rem;" value="something">

I cannot find it by id or name and need to submit a form.

I tried doing this: Alternatively, WebDriver has the convenience method “submit” on every element. If you call this on an element within a form, WebDriver will walk up the DOM until it finds the enclosing form and then calls submit on that. If the element isn’t in a form, then the NoSuchElementException will be raised: element.submit() http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/navigating.html

But that cannot find the submit selector either.

ideas?

is the form inside an iframe?

Bryan Oakley
– Bryan Oakley

2016-02-21 01:15:30 +00:00
Commented Feb 21, 2016 at 1:15 — Bryan Oakley
– Bryan Oakley, Commented Feb 21, 2016 at 1:15

timbre timbre · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-21 06:18:39Z

62

There are many options here, to name a few:

If class alone is unique, you can use

driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".button_main").click()

If class + value combo is unique, you can use:

driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".button_main[value='something']").click()

You can also use xpath:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@type='submit' and @value='something']").click()

If none of those work (i.e. they are not identifying button uniquely), look at the elements above the button (for example <form) and provide the xpath in format:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//unique_parent//input[@type="submit" and @value='something']").click()

answered Feb 21, 2016 at 6:18

timbre timbre

14.1k10 gold badges56 silver badges93 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

1 Comment

Vaidøtas I. Over a year ago

Now deprecated for anyone trying this

Nelson Bwogora · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-01 17:24:11Z

3

i recommend xpath chrome extension, with it you will be able to get the path by running the extension and shift-clicking on the element you want this chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xpath-helper/hgimnogjllphhhkhlmebbmlgjoejdpjl

answered Dec 1, 2017 at 17:24

Nelson Bwogora

2,4092 gold badges21 silver badges21 bronze badges

2 Comments

Marcel Over a year ago

You don’t need an extension for this, just open developer tools and select an element, then right-click > copy > xpath. To search by xpath just use ctrl + f or cmd + f

timbre timbre Over a year ago

I wouldn't recommend using this method: xpath recommendations provided by developer tools (and some other tools) are not good xpaths to use with Selenium. They generate absolute xpath, while it's much better to use relative xpath (absolute xpath is far more breakable than relative one; it's also much harder to read and semantically may be unclear). So you can use this generated xpath as a basis, but not as an actual value.

NicoPaez · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-21 01:16:13Z

1

You could try to find the element with an XPath expression or a CSS selector like input[type="button"], and then just click the element.

answered Feb 21, 2016 at 1:16

NicoPaez

4362 silver badges15 bronze badges

Comments

Clarius · Accepted Answer · 2023-12-11 13:21:21Z

0

At time of writing this is working for me...

let submit = await driver.findElement(By.css("[type='submit']"));
await submit.click();

Luck.

answered Dec 11, 2023 at 13:21

Clarius

1,47918 silver badges13 bronze badges

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

find submit button in selenium without id

4 Answers 4

1 Comment

2 Comments

Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Linked

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

4 Answers 4

1 Comment

2 Comments

Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Linked

Related