Clicking on HTML <a> tag with selenium python

Question

I try to click on html a tag with selenium but I get an error.

How can I get selenium to click on such tag?

I've tried this code but I get an error:

driver.find_element_by_id("btnCreateJE").click()

HTML code:
<a id="btnCreateJE" data-permission="true" onclick="NewManualJE()" href="@" class="btn waves-effect waves-light"> New </a>

Python selenium code:
driver.find_element_by_id("btnCreateJE").click()

I get that error:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"[id="btnCreateJE"]"}
  (Session info: chrome=75.0.3770.142)

Dmitri T · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-31 14:07:59Z

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Make sure that the element doesn't belong to the iframe, if this is the case - you will need to switch_to_frame first
Make sure that the element doesn't belong to the Shadow DOM, if this is the case - you will have to find the relevant ShadowRoot and locate your element relatively
It might be the case the link is not immediately present in DOM, i.e. it's being added later as a result of an AJAX call. If this is the case - consider adding Explicit Wait like:
```
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(expected_conditions.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "btnCreateJE"))).click()
```

answered Jul 31, 2019 at 14:07

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undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-31 18:02:09Z

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The desired element is a JavaScript enabled element so to click() on the element you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element to be clickable and you can use either of the following solutions:

Using PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "New"))).click()

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a.btn.waves-effect.waves-light#btnCreateJE[onclick^='NewManualJE']"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@class='btn waves-effect waves-light' and @id='btnCreateJE'][starts-with(@onclick, 'NewManualJE')]"))).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

edited Jul 31, 2019 at 18:02

answered Jul 31, 2019 at 14:26

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Eilon123 Over a year ago

I get this error: selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

undetected Selenium Over a year ago

@Eilon123 Tryout the updated answer and let me know the status.

Eilon123 Over a year ago

Thank you, unfortunately is doesn't work, any other ideas?

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