Click on element that has x-click with python selenium-CodePudding

    <img  id="showlink" x-onclick="changeLink()" src="https://eductin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Download.png">

I need to click on this element but the click function of selenium is not working. Here is my code.

wd.find_element(value="showlink").click()

Have no error but it is not working.

CodePudding user response：

This element can be located based on several attributes: id, x-onclick, src etc.
For example

wd.find_element(By.ID,'showlink')

But it is always preferable to use expected conditions webdriver waits, as following:

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

WebDriverWait(wd, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "showlink"))).click()

CodePudding user response：

Given the HTML:

<img  id="showlink" x-onclick="changeLink()" src="https://eductin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Download.png">

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

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "img.spoint#showlink[x-onclick^='changeLink']"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//img[@class='spoint' and @id='showlink'][starts-with(@x-onclick, 'changeLink')]"))).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