Selenium: 'function' object has no attribute 'click'

Question

I am running into this issue when trying to click a button using selenium. The button html reads as below:

<button class="Component-button-0-2-65 Component-button-d1-0-2-68">and 5 more</button>

My code is here:

button = EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'.//button[contains(@class,"Component-button-d")]'))
    if button:
        print("TRUE")
        button.click()

My output is:

TRUE
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 47, in <module>
    button.click()
AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'click'

I am stumped as to why 'button' element is found by selenium (print(True) statement is executed) but then the click() method returns an attribute error.

This is the page I am scraping data from: https://religiondatabase.org/browse/regions I am able to extract all the information I need on the page, so the code leading up to the click is working.

I was expecting the item to be clickable. I'm not sure how to troubleshoot the attribute error (function object has no attribute click). Because it I paste the xpath into the webpage, it highlights the correct element.

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2023-02-09 23:14:24Z

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The element search is always done through the driver object which is the WebDriver instance in it's core form:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "element_xpath")

But when you apply WebDriverWait, the wait configurations are applied on the driver object.

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "element_xpath")))

So even during WebDriverWait the driver object needs to be present along with the expected_conditions and the locator strategy.

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This line of code:

button = EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'.//button[contains(@class,"Component-button-d")]'))

button object references to a junk value but on probing returns true and prints TRUE but the click can't be performed as button is not of WebElement type.

Solution

Given the HTML:

<button class="Component-button-0-2-65 Component-button-d1-0-2-68">and 5 more</button>

To click on the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using XPATH with classname:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "//button[contains(@class,'Component-button-d')]"))).click()

Using XPATH with classname and innerText:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[contains(@class,'Component-button-d') and text()='and 5 more']"))).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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answered Feb 9, 2023 at 23:03

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aa03 Over a year ago

Thank you for such a detailed response. I really appreciate it. I'll choose this answer as accepted since this provides more detail.

Barry the Platipus · Accepted Answer · 2023-02-09 19:34:47Z

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Your code is incorrect. You can find below an example of how you can use Expected Conditions (along with WebdriverWait):

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
## [...define your driver here, other imports etc]

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 25)

##[open a url, etc]
element = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//div[@class="input-group"]')))
element.click()

Selenium documentation can be found here.

answered Feb 9, 2023 at 19:34

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aa03 Over a year ago

Thank you for your answer, I now understand what is wrong.

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