Finding elements in Selenium

Question

My button looks like this:

<button type="button" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#modal-order-export" data-backdrop="false" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">
    <i class="fa fa-file-excel-o"></i> 엑셀 저장
</button>`

How can I click this object via selenium to automate some work? I tried:

driver.find_element_by_link_text('엑셀 저장').click()

Answer 1

You could take its xpath by right-clicking the element in developer tools and choosing copy. Then just find the element using xpath.

Answer 2

The WebElement which you are trying to search/find is within <button> tag hence find_element_by_link_text may not work. We will be using an xpath to locate the WebElement as follows:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@class='btn btn-default btn-sm']/i[@class='fa fa-file-excel-o']").click()