Click button by text using Python and Selenium

Question

Is it possible to click multiply buttons with the same text with Selenium?

Kotick

Answer 1

You can find all buttons by text and then execute click() method for each button in a for loop.

Using this SO answer it would be something like this:

buttons = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'My Button')]")

for btn in buttons:
    btn.click()

I also recommend you take a look at Splinter which is a nice wrapper for Selenium.

Splinter is an abstraction layer on top of existing browser automation tools such as Selenium, PhantomJS and zope.testbrowser. It has a high-level API that makes it easy to write automated tests of web applications.

Imminent

Well, they're about 100 different buttons I have to click, and they all have different xpathas – Kotick

But they have the same text/look the same – Kotick

In the example I've given, you're not looking for a given absolute xpath, but for text that buttons contain. – Imminent

driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'Unlock this result here')]").click() Not working, I don't understand? – Kotick

Could you provide us with a link to the website you try to interact with? Or show us html code of buttons? – Imminent

Answer 2

To locate and click a <button> element by it's text you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using xpath and text():

  driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[text()='button_text']").click()
  

• Using xpath and contains():

  driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[contains(., 'button_text')]").click()
  

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Ideally, to locate and click a <button> element by it's text you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using XPATH and text():

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[text()='button_text']"))).click()
  

• Using XPATH and contains():

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[contains(., 'button_text')]"))).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
  

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Update

To locate all the <button> elements by the text you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using xpath and text():

  for button in driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//button[text()='button_text']"):
    button.click()
  

• Using xpath and contains():

  for button in driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//button[contains(., 'button_text')]"):
    button.click()
  

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Ideally, to locate all the <button> elements by the text you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_all_elements_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using XPATH and text():

  for button in WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, "//button[text()='button_text']"))):
    button.click()
  

• Using XPATH and contains():

  for button in WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, "//button[contains(., 'button_text')]"))):
    button.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
  

Comte

Answer 3

I had the following in html:

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[contains(text(), "HELLO")]').click()

Risser

Answer 4

@nobodyskiddy, Try to use driver.find_element ( if you have a single button option ), use index to click() when you are using driver.find_elements, find_elements will return array to web element values, so you have to use the index to select or click.

Sulfonmethane

Answer 5

CheckElementAttribute(driver.FindElement(By.Id("btnCopyBtn")), "enabled", "true", "Copy  Type field");

Brogan

You can consider elaborating your answer about how to make use of the code you've provided. – Defensible