How to handle click on “Download key” button in selenium web driver in python?

Question

I am not sure what find_element_by_* I should use with respect to below "inspect element" to click on the download button. I am new to selenium still dealing with basics.

<a href="#" style="font-size:15px;" onclick="if(typeof jsfcljs == 'function'){jsfcljs(document.forms['activationpage3'],'activationpage3:j_id_id21,activationpage3:j_id_id21','');}return false">Download Key File</a>

Answer 1

You can use the below.

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[.='Download Key File']").click()

Answer 2

To click() on the element with text as Download Key File as it is an <a> node you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies :

• Using LINK_TEXT :

   WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "Download Key File"))).click()

• Using PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT :

   WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Download Key File"))).click()

• Using CSS_SELECTOR :

   WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a[onclick*='activationpage3']"))).click()

• Using XPATH :

   WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[contains(@onclick,'activationpage3') and contains(., 'Download Key File')]"))).click()

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

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