Unable to click on an element using CssSelector and Selenium Python

Question

I open this site in python https://zeitung.faz.net/ when open a message in popup this site

driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#notice > div.message-component.message-row.sticky-element > div.message-component.message-row.row-no-margin-phone.cta-yep > div").click()

but not work

Answer 1

The element ZUSTIMMEN is within an <iframe> so you have to:

• Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frame to be available and switch to it .

• Induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable .

• You can use either of the following Locator Strategies :

  • Using CSS_SELECTOR :

     driver.get('https://zeitung.faz.net/') WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe[title='SP Consent Message']"))) WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[title='ZUSTIMMEN']"))).click()

  • Using XPATH :

     driver.get('https://zeitung.faz.net/') WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@title='SP Consent Message']"))) WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@title='ZUSTIMMEN']"))).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

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Reference

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

• Switch to an iframe through Selenium and python
• selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element while trying to click Next button with selenium
• selenium in python: NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element