How to select element using XPATH syntax on Selenium for Python?

Question

consider following HTML:

<div id='a'>
  <div>
    <a class='click'>abc</a>
  </div>
</div>

I want to click abc, but the wrapper div could change, so

driver.get_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='a']/div/a[@class='click']")

is not what I want

i tried:

 driver.get_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='a']").get_element_by_xpath(.//a[@class='click']")

but this would not work with deeper nesting

any ideas?

Solution

HTML

<div id='a'>
  <div>
    <a class='click'>abc</a>
  </div>
</div>

You could use the XPATH as :

//div[@id='a']//a[@class='click']

output

<a class="click">abc</a>

That said your Python code should be as :

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='a']//a[@class='click']")