Click Element with Selenium python

Question

I am trying to click a button using Selenium.

Below is the code

<div class="ui-dialog-buttonset">
    <button class="ui-button ui-widget ui-state-default ui-corner-all ui-button-text-only" type="button" role="button" aria-disabled="false">
        <span class="ui-button-text"> … </span>
    </button>

I tried to do this by the css selector:

clickbutton=driver.find_element_by_css_selector("button.ui-button.ui-widget.ui-state-default.ui-corner-all.ui-button-text-only")

**My error: Unable to locate element: { method: "css selector","selector":"button.ui-button.ui-widget.ui-state-default.ui-corner-all.ui-button-text-only"} **

Am I approaching this wrong? Im not understanding the error. Shoud I use another Locator?

do you really need to target all those classes? what if you do ui-dialog-buttonset button.ui-button — cocoa
– cocoa, Commented Nov 17, 2015 at 22:03
is there more than one of those buttons? or have you tried using find_element_by_class_name? — cocoa
– cocoa, Commented Nov 17, 2015 at 22:19
Theres 2 buttons a "create" button (the button I am trying to click) and a close button. I have tried driver.find_element_by_class_name ("ui-dialog_buttonset") — royalblue
– royalblue, Commented Nov 17, 2015 at 22:23

Mesut GUNES · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-17 22:36:08Z

Your css selector is ok the problem is related to html code which setting aria-disabled="false" for compability. For Web3 documentation it means that related element and descandent are active but in your case it is not working.

Simple you can set the aria-disabled="true" then you can interact with the button but even you set it back to false it still works. To change the button attribute, you can use execute_script. Alternative to your css you use this css too: .ui-dialog-buttonset > button

>>> dr.find_element_by_css_selector(".ui-dialog-buttonset > button").get_attribute("aria-disabled")
u'false'
>>> dr.execute_script('document.querySelector(".ui-dialog-buttonset > button").setAttribute("aria-disabled", true)')
>>> dr.find_element_by_css_selector(".ui-dialog-buttonset > button").get_attribute("aria-disabled")
u'true'
>>> dr.find_element_by_css_selector(".ui-dialog-buttonset > button").click()

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