Selenium can't click visible <button> with text "Download All"

Question

I'm trying to click a "Download All" button using Selenium in Python. Here's the relevant HTML from inspect:

<button title="" type="button" class="bds-button variant-primary" data-title="">Download All</button>

I've tried literally everything I can think of:

XPath:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[text()='Download All']").click()

CSS Selector:

driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.bds-button.variant-primary").click()

Looping through all buttons:

buttons = driver.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "button")
for b in buttons:
    print(f'Text: "{b.text.strip()}" | Class: {b.get_attribute("class")}')
    if b.text.strip() == "Download All":
        b.click()

Explicit waits:

WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[text()='Download All']"))
).click()

Scrolling into view:

driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", button)

Checking for iframes using:

print(driver.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "iframe"))

Checking for shadow DOMs, but I don’t see any shadow roots.

What I know:

The button is visible in the browser.
The button is not inside an iframe.
The button does not appear to be in a shadow DOM.
The page is fully loaded before interaction.
There's no id attribute on the button.

Here is a screenshot of the html elements: enter image description here

Have you tested that the XPath is unique on the page? Open the dev console, use $x("//button[text()='Download All']"), and make sure that only 1 element is returned. What happens when you use WebDriverWait? Do you get a timeout or some other error? Can you share the URL of the page? Something weird is going on. — JeffC
– JeffC, Commented May 28 at 21:00
Can you not find the element, or can you find it, but not click it? What exception are you getting? — Corey Goldberg
– Corey Goldberg, Commented May 29 at 0:08
Please post the full HTML of the page or provide the URL. We can't predict where the button is located on the page or how it behaves. — S A
– S A, Commented May 29 at 4:24
Can you share the URL for the page you're trying to work with? — jackal
– jackal, Commented May 29 at 6:18

S A · Accepted Answer · 2025-05-29 12:08:57Z

You have not provided the URL or the full HTML of the page. Tried to decipher the page from your screenshot. Have you made sure that the panels are open when you are trying to click the button? From the class name of the divs, it looks like you have to open some panels before you can see the button.

First, check if the element exists or not in the DOM from your code. Use the full CSS selector.

div#web-takeoff > div.web-takeoff__container > div.web-takeoff__page--panel-open > div.panel--open > div.panel__content--open > div.panel__documents > div.takeoff-control > button.bds-button.variant-primary``

If you see that the element exists. Then check if it is clickable or not.

If it exists, then it should be clickable using the script executor.

You have not provided the error. I'm assuming your selectors are not getting the button. So try again and see if you can get the button from your code.

Abhi Raj · Accepted Answer · 2025-05-29 15:30:05Z

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try this

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10) button = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//button[contains(., 'Download All')]")))

Or

 wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10) button = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(
    (By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.bds-button.variant-primary") ))


driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", button) driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", button)

buttons = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.bds-button.variant-primary")
    for btn in buttons:
        if btn.is_displayed():
            driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", btn)
            break

edited May 29 at 15:30

answered May 28 at 19:13

Abhi Raj

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Summer May 28 at 19:48

Unfortunately I tried that code and it still doesn't work. :( I added a screenshot of the html elements to the bottom of the post though, thanks!

Starship May 28 at 22:13

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Abhi Raj May 29 at 15:21

Try alternative like - use CSS Selector by Class By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.bds-button.variant-primary"

Starship · Accepted Answer · 2025-05-29 16:25:40Z

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Try:

buttons = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'Download All')]")

for btn in buttons:
    btn.click()

Inspired by Click button by text using Python and Selenium.

edited May 29 at 16:25

Starship

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answered May 28 at 20:10

Mircea Sirghi

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Summer May 28 at 20:37

Unfortunately its not working :( I think it may have to do with the html or how the website is set up, but I'm not sure.

Mircea Sirghi May 29 at 7:11

Is it not working because it cannot be identified, or is the issue that the click action is not functioning? What exactly is the problem?

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