Python Selenium not clicking Link?

Question

I am getting a list of links that I want to click. I get the href of each of them and I am able to locate the element using it, but when I try to click it, it just appears as if I were hovering on top of it.

The list is called links and the href that I am trying to access is links[1]

I have alredy tried normally clicking it:

   self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH,'//*[contains(@href,links[1])]').click()

And double clicking it:

    actionChains = ActionChains(self.driver)
    a=self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH,'//*[contains(@href,links[1])]')
    actionChains.double_click(a).perform()

But the behaviour is as if I only put the cursor on top of the link without clicking it.

yogev · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-07 08:33:16Z

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just fix the xpath

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[contains(@href,'{}')]".format(links[1])).click()

or if you prefer ActionChains

actionChains = ActionChains(self.driver)
a=self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"//*[contains(@href,'{}')]".format(links[1]))
actionChains.double_click(a).perform()

answered Aug 7, 2020 at 8:33

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