How to verify if a button is clickable with Selenium in Python when the class changes?

Question

I'm trying to find out if a "Ship to Home" button is available and able to be clicked on an item in The Home Depot website. Currently, the only identifier that I find for the button is a class but when you go from store pickup to ship to home the two classes switch places for the button element. Two Elements Switch<\/a>

I don't know much about selenium but I'm assuming there has to be some type of way to loop a section of the HTML and find out if the element contains some text and if it does to click on that element.

Answer 1

XPATH could be quite flexible and allows to refer a lot of element node's data and also in advance it alows some logical conditions, etc. So I believe it's very powerful and flexible enough to produce some targeted and not fragile results.

clickable_button_xpath = "//a[@type='button'][contains(., 'Ship to Home') and contains(@class, '-unselected')]"
selected_button_xpath = "//a[@type='button'][contains(., 'Ship to Home') and contains(@class, '-selected')]"
unclickable_button_xpath = "//a[@type='button'][contains(., 'Ship to Home') and contains(@class, '-unclickable')]"

some_element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, some_xpath)