Selenium – Unable to find element

September 29, 2022

I have problems clicking a drop-down menu. The problem occurs in the second line from the bottom. The error i get is that selenium is unable to find the element i would like to click. I’ve tried with Xpath and ID instead of Class name, but that doesn’t work neither. All code until that point works fine, so i can’t figure out what the problem is.

The element i would like to click is highlighted in the attached picture.
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/X4bFX.png

    # Åben chrome
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(path)
    driver.get(web)

    # Accept cookies
    accept = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="onetrust-accept-btn-handler"]')))
    accept.click()

    header = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, 'updated-competitions')

    turneringer = WebDriverWait(header, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, './/a[contains(@title, "COMPETITIONS")]')))
    turneringer.click()

    turneringer_tabel = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'mod-multipickazmenu-1054')))
    sti = './/div[contains(@data-category, "' + country + '")]'
    land_knap = WebDriverWait(turneringer_tabel, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, sti)))
    land_knap.click()

    sti = './/a[contains(@data-galabel, "' + dict_countries[country][league] + '")]'
    liga_knap = WebDriverWait(turneringer_tabel, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, sti)))
    liga_knap.click()

    dict_odds = {}

    for i, market in enumerate(markets):
        dropdown = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CLASS_NAME, 'marketchooser-container new-coupon-layout')))
        dropdown.click()

>Solution :

@McCool, Instead of the following line:

  dropdown = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CLASS_NAME, 'marketchooser-container new-coupon-layout')))

replace it with:

  dropdown = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.marketchooser-container.new-coupon-layout')))

The reason is in Selenium CLASS_NAME does not support composite classes. In the current case, marketchooser-container and new-coupon-layout are separate classes. Hence using CSS_SELECTOR you can specify two classes as given above. If this does not solve your problem, then request you to share the stack trace of the error you are getting.