Python/Selenium - Chrome Web Driver, Click Action

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I hate it when such simple things are right infront of you.

clickme = browser.find_element_by_xpath('//a[contains(@href,"http://example.com/link")]')
clickme.click()
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Updated on June 22, 2022

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  • Dustin
    Dustin almost 2 years

    I'm having an issue coding a click action using Selenium and the Chrome Web Driver in Python. I've spent some time googling around and found that I have to use another selenium process in order to make a click in Google Chrome, which doesn't make sense to me (Wouldn't it be something while calling webdrive.Chrome?). Though I can't find any other method to make a click, either online or by going through seleniums modules.

    Here's what I have, any help is appreciated! Thanks!

    EDIT: So I found the ActionChains module in Selenium, can't seem to get this to work either. Updated my code, a bit, still stuck. Does the ChromeDriver really just not support clicks?

    import selenium
    from selenium import webdriver
    from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
    from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
    import time
    
    chromeOps = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
    chromeOps._binary_location = "C:\\Applications\\Browser\\Chrome.exe"
    chromeOps._arguments = ["--enable-internal-flash"]
    
    browser = webdriver.Chrome("C:\\Applications\\Browser\\chromedriver.exe", port=4445, chrome_options=chromeOps)
    time.sleep(3)
    
    browser.get("http://example.com")
    
    ##selenium.selenium("127.0.0.1", 4445,'*Chrome.exe', 'https://example.com').click("//a[contains(@href,'http://example.com/link')]")
    
    webdriver.ActionChains(browser).click(on_element='//a[contains(@href,"http://example.com/link")]')
    
  • dannyroa
    dannyroa almost 12 years
    Maybe because he doesn't know. That's why he's asking.
  • Sandeep Raju Prabhakar
    Sandeep Raju Prabhakar almost 11 years
    @dannyroa hehe.. both the person who asked & answered are same :P