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how can i click on the "NATIONAL" text with python selenium
<div class="ellipsis__content">
<ul class="breadcrumb_new" id="breadcrumb">
<li>
<span>NATIONAL</span>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
I tried these below things,
find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='breadcrumb']/li/span")
find_element_by_css_selector("#breadcrumb > li > span")
Both the methods not working, any idea here
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Answer question0
Try this one, should work for you:
ele=driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='breadcrumb']//span")
ele.click()
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Already this question has an answered but adding couple of points.
I tried these below things,
find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='breadcrumb']/li/span")
The id breadcrumb is part of ul tag but you are referring div tag. It should work if try as below.
find_element_by_xpath("//ul[@id='breadcrumb']/li/span")
find_element_by_css_selector("#breadcrumb > li > span")
There is nothing wrong with CSS locator. It should work still if you are seeing issue you may need to debug and see or try by adding some explicit value.
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May be you need to wait till element is rendered properly.
Code trial 1 :
time.sleep(5)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='breadcrumb']/li/span").click()
Code trial 2 :
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[@id='breadcrumb']/li/span"))).click()
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.