How to locate the button with text as Comment as per the html using Selenium and Python?

Question

I am using Xpath helper in chrome extension to find xpath for python programming. I have read the documentation but is there a better guide out there.

HTML is as follows:

<form class="addComment expand" data-id="9644797">
    <img src="https://ctl.s6img.com/society6/img/g2taHIrokQ01R_67jS8ulaWI2wk/h_150,w_150/users/avatar/~artwork/s6-original-art-uploads/society6/uploads/u/sul97/avatar_asset/d837ee10016843a3bba9ae3310cc338d" width="25" height="25">
    <textarea placeholder="Add a comment..." data-button="9644797"></textarea>
    <button id="b9644797">Comment</button>
</form>

Can someone show me an example to click the button of this path? I have tried to use it but didnt work

submit_comment = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html[@class='gr__society6_com']/body[@class='platform- desktop']/div[@id='wrap']/div[@id='content']/div[@id='MySociety']/div[@class='one-col clearfix']/ul[@id='Mason']/li[@id='9649102']/div[@class='item-wrap']/div[@class='comments']/form[@class='addComment expand']/button[@id='b9649102']").click()

"html example"... No it's not an HTML example... Share HTML, not XPath — Andersson
– Andersson, Commented Sep 6, 2018 at 17:13
Why do you need a complicated xpath? Why not just use the id of the button? //button[@id='b9644797'] — Bryan Oakley
– Bryan Oakley, Commented Sep 6, 2018 at 17:24
@BryanOakley : because the id is random generated. So we can’t rely on this id. — cruisepandey
– cruisepandey, Commented Sep 6, 2018 at 17:26
Your <img... tag is not closed, so your markup is not well-formed. Maybe that's a cause for misbehaviour. — zx485
– zx485, Commented Sep 6, 2018 at 18:21

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-06 17:43:22Z

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The xpath would be :

//button[text()='Comment']

However, you should introduce webdriver wait for more stability in your code.

.click() method return void. So invoking click method and storing in a variable doesn’t make any sense.

edited Sep 6, 2018 at 17:43

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answered Sep 6, 2018 at 17:29

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2 Comments

Sultan Morbiwala Over a year ago

also is webdriver wait is same as time.sleep() ?

cruisepandey Over a year ago

time.sleep() is extreme case of webdriverwait. You can refer this link selenium-python.readthedocs.io/waits.html for more details.

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