I am trying to click a button that is inside nested divs using Selenium

Question

The structure looks like this:

<div class="edit-post-header">
<div class="edit-post-header__settings">
<button type="button" aria-disabled="false" class="components-button editor-post-publish-button editor-post-publish-button__button is-primary">Publish</button>
</div>
</div>

I am trying to click it like this:

browser.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='edit-post-header']//div[@class='edit-post-header__settings']//button[@class='editor-post-publish-button__button']").click()

But it does not work.

Any reason you want xpath explicitly? Why not query by CSS selector with class name, as the class looks quite specific? E.g. browser.find_element_by_css_selector('button.components-button.editor-post-publish-button.editor-post-publish-button__button.is-primary').click() — Alex
– Alex, Commented Oct 24, 2021 at 18:24

cruisepandey · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-24 18:25:23Z

1

Please check in the dev tools (Google chrome) if we have unique entry in HTML DOM or not.

Steps to check:

Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL + F -> then paste the xpath and see, if your desired element is getting highlighted with 1/1 matching node.

xpath that you should check :

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

if it is unique, please use below code to click :

Code trial 1 :

time.sleep(5)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[text()='Publish']").click()

Code trial 2 :

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[text()='Publish']"))).click()

Imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

answered Oct 24, 2021 at 18:25

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