how to click on a href link using Selenium python

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I'm using Selenium and Python to try and click on button on a web page as bellow:

<div id="home" class="sc-gKAaRy bGevZe"><h1 tabindex="-1" id="home_children_heading" class="sc-fujyAs fxSjMq">Vérification</h1>
<p id="home_children_body" class="sc-pNWdM hbrIBL">Veuillez résoudre l’énigme pour que nous sachions que vous n’êtes pas un robot.</p>
<a href="#" aria-describedby="descriptionVerify" id="home_children_button" class="sc-bdnxRM gonizE sc-kEqXSa duYBxC">Suivant</a>
<div id="descriptionVerify" class="Home__StyledHiddenAnnouncement-sc-lzg094-0 kfyjkn">
Défi visuel.Les utilisateurs de lecteurs d'écran doivent utiliser le défi audio ci-dessous.</div></div>

I try many solution as click by Xpath and href but no one is work, can you help me please ? here is the code i try to use it:

xPath = '//*[@id="home_children_button"]'
driver.find_element_by_xpath(xPath).click()

#With other Xpath

xPath = 'xPath = "//input[contains(@type,'submit')][contains(@id,'home_children_button')][contains(.,'Suivant')]"'
driver.find_element_by_xpath(xPath).click()

I need your help , Please!

Does it throw any error stating the element was not found? If yes, then possibly your xpath is wrong. — CYBERDEVILZ
– CYBERDEVILZ, Commented Oct 15, 2021 at 17:31

cruisepandey · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-16 08:01:53Z

If this id home_children_button is unique in HTMLDOM, then please try with below xpath :

//a[@id='home_children_button']

Code trial 1 :

time.sleep(5)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@id='home_children_button']").click()

Code trial 2 :

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@id='home_children_button']"))).click()

Code trial 3 :

time.sleep(5)
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@id='home_children_button']")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", button)

Code trial 4 :

time.sleep(5)
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@id='home_children_button']")
ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(button).click().perform()

Imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

PS : Please check in the dev tools (Google chrome) if we have unique entry in HTML DOM or not.

Steps to check:

Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL + F -> then paste the xpath and see, if your desired element is getting highlighted with 1/1 matching node.

Arham Sanghvi · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-27 08:32:10Z

1

You should write like this

xpath = browser.find_element_by_xpath('TYPE THE XPATH')
xpath.click()

answered Jan 27, 2022 at 8:32

Arham Sanghvi

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