Selenium two buttons with same xpath. Unable to click the one I need

Question

There are two "EXPORT" buttons on the web page I am testing. I am able to click the first using:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[contains(.//text(),'EXPORT')]").click()

the driver then choses a dropdown and another div appears, again with an EXPORT button.

My code error when trying to execute:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[contains(.//text(),'EXPORT')]").click()

for this element is:

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: element click intercepted: Element ... is not clickable at point (1824, 89). Other element would receive the click: ... (Session info: chrome=92.0.4515.107)

So it says it is unable to click the first EXPORT button and the second one would get the click. I've tried modifying my xpath expression to:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[class()='MuiButtonBase-root MuiButton-root MuiButton-contained MuiButton-containedPrimary' and (.//text(),'EXPORT')]").click()

and a bunch of other attempts, but each time it is unable to locate. I want to be able to click the second EXPORT button (in the button class snippet shown in the pic).

cruisepandey · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-30 04:35:45Z

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You can differentiate between these two buttons with the help of xpath indexing.

Sample below :-

(//span[text()='EXPORT']/..)[1]

and for second button :-

(//span[text()='EXPORT']/..)[2]

and for this error

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: element click intercepted: Element ... is not clickable at point (1824, 89). Other element would receive the click: ... (Session info: chrome=92.0.4515.107)

I would suggest you to open browser in full screen mode when it's launched.

driver.maximize_window()

or probably, you can use ActionChain as well :-

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "(//span[text()='EXPORT']/..)[2]")).click().perform()

Update 1 :-

You can use find_elements as well to store all the web element and then try to click the one you want.

all_export_button = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//span[text()='EXPORT']/..")
#to click on first 
all_export_button[0].click()

#to click on Second 
all_export_button[1].click()

edited Jul 30, 2021 at 4:35

answered Jul 30, 2021 at 4:19

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Alex Oulton Over a year ago

Thanks. I already have the window maximised. As for the indexing my error using: driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[text()='EXPORT'][2]").click() is: selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//span[text()='EXPORT'][2]"} (Session info: chrome=92.0.4515.107)

cruisepandey Over a year ago

Is Page URL public ? and I do see, you are using ("//span[text()='EXPORT'][2]") which looks incorrect, what I have suggested (see above is) (//span[text()='EXPORT']/..)[2] so you can use it like this driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//span[text()='EXPORT']/..)[2]").click()

cruisepandey Over a year ago

Thank you, there's an alternative as well to do this, please see update 1 section above.

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