Selenium chromedriver and click action

[Gilles95]

Hello,

I am new to this and I am trying to click on a button with selenium and chromedriver, the button element is as below:

<button class="pagination-button pagination-direction pagination-direction--next" data-bind="click: goto.bind($data, 'next'), disable : isOnLastPage" data-test="pagination-next"> <span>Next</span> <div class="no-svg-chevron pagination-chevron pagination-chevron--forward pagination-chevron--next"> <svg> <use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="#core-icon--chevron"></use> </svg> </div> </button>


I have tried with xpath and find element by class name, but click or submitting is not working.

Find below an extract of the different codes:

1 2	button = driver.find_element_by_class_name('pagination-direction--next') button.click()

and the error:

Error:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Element <button class="pagination-button pagination-direction pagination-direction--next" data-bind="click: goto.bind($data, 'next'), disable : isOnLastPage" data-test="pagination-next">...</button> is not clickable at point (820, 853). Other element would receive the click: <button class="button" data-bind="click: closeMessage" data-test="close-cookie-popup-button">...</button>

if I replace click() by submit, I get the below error:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Element was not in a form, so could not submit.

another test:

1 2	button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='l-container']/div[3]/div/div/div/div[3]/button") button.click()

the error:

Error:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Element <button class="pagination-button pagination-direction pagination-direction--next" data-bind="click: goto.bind($data, 'next'), disable : isOnLastPage" data-test="pagination-next">...</button> is not clickable at point (820, 853). Other element would receive the click: <button class="button" data-bind="click: closeMessage" data-test="close-cookie-popup-button">...</button>

From this last error message it seems I need to find "button class="button" data-bind="click" but I can't find it in the source of the page, hence difficult to capture it as element with selenium and chromedriver

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Gilles95

[metulburr]

Its hard to say without looking at it myself...so i can only guess. Is there a popup occurring before your button click? Did you run it and see what is going on while its going through the steps? This is the only method to for sure verify the html is what you expect it to be.

[Gilles95]

Hello,

Thank you for replying.

There is no pop-up, it is a button to go to the next page on righmove search like here at the bottom.

To me yes, what is retrieved through selenium chrome driver is the same as what I see on the source page, but it is confusing to see "close-cookie-popup-button" in the error message.

Thanks for your help,

Gilles95

[snippsat]

but it is confusing to see "close-cookie-popup-button" in the error message.

Do what the error message say and it should work.
Here a test that work for me.

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from selenium import webdriver from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import time   # Activate Phantom and deactivate Chrome to not load browser #browser = webdriver.PhantomJS() browser = webdriver.Chrome() web_url = 'Your url' browser.get(web_url) time.sleep(3) close_cookie = browser.find_elements_by_css_selector('#cookiePolicy > div > button') close_cookie[0].click() time.sleep(3) next_page = browser.find_elements_by_css_selector('.pagination-direction--next') next_page[0].click()

[Gilles95]

Excellent!

Thanks for your help! It works now.

Gilles95