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Python Selenium: How to click an element containing text and which parent is button

byMR

February 24, 2022

I have two buttons on a page containing "Einloggen" text and I need to click the "Einloggen" button.

The first element with "Probleme beim Einloggen?" is a link with span.

and the second, which I need is a button with a span.

CSS classes are not stable, I cannot use them.

I have tried:

self.log_in_link = WebDriverWait(self.driver, self.delay).until(
            EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//button/following-sibling::span[contains(text(), 'Einloggen')]")))

But it can’t find it

If I try so

self.log_in_link = WebDriverWait(self.driver, self.delay).until(
            EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, ".//span[contains(text(), 'Einloggen')]")))

The driver clicks the wrong element ("Probleme beim Einloggen?")

>Solution :

From the picture you presented I see the parent element here is not a button rather div with buttonstyle class.
Please try this XPath

//div[contains(@class,'buttonstyle')]//span[contains(text(),'Einloggen')]

I would also advice using visibility_of_element_located expected condition instead of presence_of_element_located to wait for more mature element state, when it becomes visible, not just presented (but may be still not completely rendered).
So your code could be

WebDriverWait(self.driver, self.delay).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[contains(@class,'buttonstyle')]//span[contains(text(),'Einloggen')]")))