Click button after it is visible in Selenium using python

Question

I'm trying to emulate a search using Python and Selenium, but recently I faced a problem, when a button is generated but a JS. Here, in the picture below, the button Im t rying to click is "Save..." and it is visible (and clickable) after search is finished. Using code analyzer in Firefox, I found that this button's code is:

  <div class="pharmit_minbottom">
   <button class="ui-button ui-widget ui-state-default ui-corner-all ui-button-text-only" role="button">
    <span class="ui-button-text-only">
     Save...
    </span>
   </button>
  </div>

But in this code there are two more buttons with the same text label:

<div class="pharmit_resfooter">
  <div class="pharmit_bottomloaders pharmit_nowrap">
   <button class="ui-button ui-widget ui-state-default ui-corner-all ui-button-disabled ui-state-disabled ui-button-text-only" disabled="" role="button">
    <span class="ui-button-text">
     Minimize
    </span>
   </button>
   <button class="ui-button ui-widget ui-state-default ui-corner-all ui-button-disabled ui-state-disabled ui-button-text-only" disabled="" role="button">
    <span class="ui-button-text">
     Save...
    </span>
   </button>
  </div>
 </div>

I tried to click it using two different pieces of code:

time.sleep(30) #wait for the search to finish
driver.find_element_by_class_name('ui-button.ui-widget.ui-state-default.ui-corner-all.ui-button-text-only').click()

And another one:

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 30)
wait = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CLASS_NAME,'ui-button.ui-widget.ui-state-default.ui-corner-all.ui-button-text-only')))
wait.click()

But neither of them seems to work. how can I overcome this situation and finally click this button?

Naveen Kumar R B · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-07 16:59:43Z

1

try the following code:

Using WebDriverWait: (helps to avoid sleep in case of slow loading)

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 30)
saveButton = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//div[@class='pharmit_‌bottomloaders pharmit_nowrap']/button[2]/span")))
saveButton.click()

Without WebDriverWait:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='pharmit_‌bottomloaders pharmit_nowrap']/button[2]/span").click()

edited Jan 7, 2017 at 16:59

answered Jan 7, 2017 at 15:12

Naveen Kumar R B

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Глеб Харитонов Over a year ago

Thanks for the replie, but Im still getting 'ElementNotVisibleException' as this button is not even loaded. Maybe, I need to somehow get my new page after perfoming search to the driver itself?

Naveen Kumar R B Over a year ago

Always use WebDriverWait solution. what is the error with using first solution? TimeOutException?

Глеб Харитонов Over a year ago

Yep, TimeOutException.

Naveen Kumar R B Over a year ago

what's your observation? Does the element is displayed? or not displayed? when the exception raised? If not displayed, then increase the timeout from 30 to 60 seconds.

Глеб Харитонов Over a year ago

It is displayed even after 15 seconds and I can manually click on it. But the program thinks that it is still invisible.

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