Selenium-Python-find_element_by_link_text不确定出什么问题

Question

This is my first time with both Python and Selenium, and I'm trying to select and click on an element of the navigation bar of this website - stockfetcher.com

I would like to click on the MyFilters tab on the navigation bar. After inspecting the element, I see that the HTML code for that element is

<a href="/myfilters"> "MyFilters " <span class="tab-pill"></span> </a>

And here's what I trying to do

driver.find_element_by_link_text("MyFilters ").click()

And I get this error

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'click'

Any idea what's wrong? Most examples I watched online did not have "" around whatever is inside the tag. Is that what's messing me up?

Answer 1

Link text is sometimes very picky about what you send to it, and I have found that you have to match what the actual link is showing, and not the value following href. Since the site shows MyFilters , try doing this instead:

driver.find_element_by_link_text('MyFilters').click()

Without the space after Filters . I tested on my side and it seems to work.

Also, the error does not match what you have given as an example, it would throw NoSuchElementException , before it would throw that NoneType has no click() event. Either way the above should work for you.