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Question

I'm trying to click on a link on a webpage that has no ID and no individual class. The only thing to lock it down to is the text 'Sessions'.

I have tried:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(),'Sessions')]");

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[text()='Sessions']");

Both come back with "No such element".

Edit: I have also tried driver.find_element_by_link_text which also didn't work.

I've tried using the full xpath:

/html/body/div/div/div[1]/div/nav/a[3]

To no avail.

Answer 1

That is a link_Text cause it's between anchor tag, use this :

driver.find_element_by_link_text('Sessions').click()

or

A way more good approach is to use ExplicitWaits :

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
element = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, 'Sessions')))
element.click()

If you want explicit wait you would need to import the below :

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

If the above gives you NoSuchElementException , I would probably suspect this it is in iframe (See the screenshot first tag - I can see body), if it happens to be then in that case you would need to switch to iframe first and continute with this web element.

Code

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
wait.until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH, "iframe xpath here")))
wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Sessions"))).click()

Imports :