My HTML format is below:
***button class="btn authorize unlocked"
span>Authenticate</span
button***
So when I use "browser.find_element_by_xpath('//span[@class = "btn authorize unlocked"]')" to locate this button, it can not find that.
Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//span[@class = "btn authorize unlocked"]"}
So what should I change?
To locate the element you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using css_selector:
element = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.btn.authorize.unlocked > span")
Using xpath:
element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[@class='btn authorize unlocked']/span[text()='Authenticate']")
Ideally, to locate the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using CSS_SELECTOR:
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.btn.authorize.unlocked > span")))
Using XPATH:
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//button[@class='btn authorize unlocked']/span[text()='Authenticate']")))
Note : You have to add the following imports :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
