Selenium web driver: How do I click on the button?

Question

<button style="margin: 8px 5px 0 0; height: 40px;" 
class="gprospect_linkedin_button gprospect_linkedin_button_style_medium"> 
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</button>

Tried the code below but element cannot be found:

driver.find_element_by_class_name('gprospect_linkedin_button').click()

Answer 1

The actual class name is 'gprospect_linkedin_button gprospect_linkedin_button_style_medium'

find_element_by_class_name function is designed to get the element by the full class-name.

You can try to locate it with xpath like this:

//button[contains(@class, 'gprospect_linkedin_button')];

Answer 2

You can use xpath starts-with function to solve this issue. like:

//*[starts-with(., 'gprospect_linkedin_button')]

Answer 3

As per the configuration details (within your comment update) ...

(Session info: chrome=69.0.3497.100) 
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.37.543627 (63642262d9fb93fb4ab52398be4286d844092a5e),platform=Windows NT 6.3.9600 x86_64) 

Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:

• You are using chromedriver=2.37
• Release Notes of chromedriver=2.37 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome v64-66

• You are using chrome=69.0
• Release Notes of ChromeDriver v2.42 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome v68-70

So there is a clear mismatch between ChromeDriver v2.37 and the Chrome Browser v69.0

Solution

• Upgrade ChromeDriver to current ChromeDriver v2.42 level.
• Keep Chrome version between Chrome v68-70 levels. ( as per ChromeDriver v2.42 release notes )
• Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.
• If your base Web Client version is too old, then uninstall it through Revo Uninstaller and install a recent GA and released version of Web Client .

• Use the following line of code to invoke click() on the desired element:

   driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@class='gprospect_linkedin_button gprospect_linkedin_button_style_medium'][normalize-space()='Get email']").click() 

• Execute your @Test .

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Update A

As you are still seeing NoSuchElementException after the binary update you need to induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable as follows:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
# other lines of code
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@class='gprospect_linkedin_button gprospect_linkedin_button_style_medium'][normalize-space()='Get email']"))).click()

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Update B

As you are still unable to click() you need to use execute_script() method as follows:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
# other lines of code
myElement = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@class='gprospect_linkedin_button gprospect_linkedin_button_style_medium'][normalize-space()='Get email']")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", myElement)

Answer 4

尝试这个：

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(local-name(), 'button') and contains(@class, 'gprospect_linkedin_button')]").click()