How to click hidden buttons in Python Selenium?

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I'm working on simple automation in Selenium. I need to click a specific button. I can't because it is hidden in div/table without class.

I'm attaching a screenshot of the html. I did try xpath, css select, select and still nothing.

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 10 '19 at 06:21

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You could try clicking the div then. You can use XPath to locate the button element (as it has some class so you can locate it) and add /parent::div to get the div to click it.

answered Sep 10 '19 at 06:21

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '19 at 08:17

To click() on the button you have to induce WebDriverWait for the desired visibility_of_element_located() 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, "ul.nightclubs.unstyled > li > table.table.table-condensed button.btn.btn-inverse.btn-small.pull-right"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//ul[@class='nightclubs unstyled']/li/table[@class='table table-condensed']//button[@class='btn btn-inverse btn-small pull-right' and contains(., 'Wejd')]"))).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

You are my hero :) Thanks sir ! – popo1992 Sep 10 '19 at 20:48 — popo1992, Sep 10 '19 at 20:48

How to click hidden buttons in Python Selenium?

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