Clicking on Text using Selenium

Question

I want to click on this checkbox:

<label for="auth:RegistrationForm:multistep[gtcAgbChechbox]" class="checkbox">
    ::before
    Ich bestätige, dass ich die
    <a href="/gtc" title="AGB" class="popup" data-title="gtc" data-funnelize="A::Click,O::###page###,T::Link,ST::GTC">AGB</a>
    gelesen und akzeptiert habe.
</label>

But I can't click on the checkbox itself because the label has everything in it. I tried to do so but then it sometimes clicks on the link AGB which I don't want to.

So I tried clicking on "Ich bestätige, dass ich die" with:

WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(expected_conditions.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="auth:RegistrationForm:multistep[signupForm]"]/div[4]/div[2]/div[1]/label/text()[1]'))).click()

But then I get the error "The result of the xpath is [object Text]. It should be an element."

Can you post the URL?

AbiSaran
– AbiSaran

2022-11-04 07:55:43 +00:00
Commented Nov 4, 2022 at 7:55 — AbiSaran
– AbiSaran, Commented Nov 4, 2022 at 7:55
Post the exact URL in which that checkbox is available.

AbiSaran
– AbiSaran

2022-11-04 07:58:56 +00:00
Commented Nov 4, 2022 at 7:58 — AbiSaran
– AbiSaran, Commented Nov 4, 2022 at 7:58

Dmitriy Neledva · Accepted Answer · 2022-11-04 08:34:52Z

1

there you can locate 4 things

<label for="auth:RegistrationForm:multistep[gtcAgbChechbox]" class="checkbox">

Ich bestätige, dass ich die 

<a href="/gtc" title="AGB" class="popup" data-title="gtc" data-funnelize="A::Click,O::###page###,T::Link,ST::GTC">AGB</a> 

gelesen und akzeptiert habe.</label>

you need to locate the first one = 'label' only without touching the other 3 that left

look at this code

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.implicitly_wait(10)

driver.get('https://www.fremdgehen69.com/')

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/form/div[1]/div/div[3]/div').click()

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="auth:RegistrationForm:multistep[msReg_username]"]').send_keys('anything')
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/form/div[2]/div/div[4]/div[2]').click()


driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="auth:RegistrationForm:multistep[msReg_password]"]').send_keys('anything')
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/form/div[3]/div/div[3]/div[2]').click()


#look at this only, all upper things are password inputting
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/form/div[4]/div[2]/div[1]/label').click()   #this line takes 'label' only

edited Nov 4, 2022 at 8:34

answered Nov 4, 2022 at 7:53

Dmitriy Neledva

8646 silver badges11 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

3 Comments

MausHausi Over a year ago

Hi but when I use your last line with that XPATH sometimes Selenium clicks on AGB. I only want to klick on "Ich bestätige, dass ich die" to solve this problem...

Dmitriy Neledva Over a year ago

It's strange because there should be /a at the end of xpath only then it would touch that a tag link. You can try then css_selector instead of xpath. The last line should be driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'div.formStep:nth-child(2) > div:nth-child(1) > label:nth-child(2)').click()

Dmitriy Neledva Over a year ago

this css_selector takes check box, and this one # div.formStep:nth-child(2) > div:nth-child(1) > label:nth-child(2) > a:nth-child(1) would take a tag, this one has additional ` > a:nth-child(1)` at the end.

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Clicking on Text using Selenium

1 Answer 1

3 Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

3 Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related