Using selenium to click on link not working despite correct xpath

Question

So I have the following setup

# Setup webdriver
wait = 10
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver.get(url)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, wait)

I then navigate to a certain page - I have attached the inspect part below and want to click on the part highlighted in red

The code to implement this is below:

# Click on link
vs_table_path = "//a[@href='/care/chart/wandv/viewallclientvitals.jsp?ESOLstdvitalid=1&amp;ESOLview=Weights&amp;ESOLclientid=533354']"
vs_table = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, vs_table_path)))
vs_table.click()

When I run this - it does not open up this link and I get a TimeoutException (from the wait).

I don't understand what the issue is here - I did the exact same thing on previous parts of the code to navigate the webpage and it worked. I also made sure the xpath matches exactly the attached inspect.

Please see href text below:

//a[@href='/care/chart/wandv/viewallclientvitals.jsp?ESOLstdvitalid=1&amp;ESOLview=Weights&amp;ESOLclientid=533354']

cruisepandey · Accepted Answer · 2021-06-04 18:25:09Z

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try this instead :

wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[text()='view all']"))).click()

or

probably try this also :

wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "view all"))).click()

Please refer official docs

edited Jun 4, 2021 at 18:25

answered Jun 4, 2021 at 18:19

cruisepandey

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C. Peck Over a year ago

I was just going to write exactly that :)

cruisepandey Over a year ago

@C.Peck : I would still prefer LINK_TEXT :)

C. Peck Over a year ago

Interesting, I personally only use xpath and css selector (mostly all CSS Selectors), sometimes things don't work as I expect with NAME, CLASS_NAME, LINK_TEXT, etc

cruisepandey Over a year ago

@C.Peck : with CSS you will not have much issues, cause their engines are same across almost every browser. Xpath does not have consistency across different browser, now if they there are multiple linkText in a single page then we can't rely on linText for obvious reasons. I rarely use className, that's something I don't want to use.

Ossz Over a year ago

@cruisepandey - thanks this works, but only issue is that I have multiple 'view all' on the webpage, hence why I used the href above. How can I differentiate between different 'view alls'?

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