Can t find an element Using Selenium

Question

My code is:

browser = webdriver.Chrome()
wait = WebDriverWait(browser, 10)
data = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#search_result_former > div.re-content.search-mode-content > div.list-container > ul > li:nth-child(1) > div > div.item-footer > div > a:nth-child(1)')))

The HTML is:

<div class="btn-group clear">
                        <a href="javascript:;" class="btn btn-operation" role="detail">详览</a>
                        <a href="javascript:;" class="btn btn-operation" role="lawState" an="CN201820052763" pn="CN207117855U">法律状态</a>
                        <a href="javascript:;" class="btn btn-operation" role="proposor" _name="信阳农林学院;" _address=" 河南省信阳市羊山新区新24大街信阳农林学院;" _zipcode="464000;" _country="">申请人</a>
                        <a href="javascript:;" role="addAnalysis" class="btn btn-operation">+ 分析库</a>
                        <a href="javascript:;" role="favorite" class="btn btn-operation">收藏</a>
                        <a href="javascript:;" role="translate" _id="CN201820052763.420180316XX" class="btn btn-operation btn-translate">翻译</a>
                        </div>

The result after I run my code:

*raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:* 

Actually, I can see the element. I mean, the element has been loaded. I have tried XPATH, but it doesn't work.

Answer 1

The reason you can't locate the item is because a new window is opened and I need to switch to the new one. 

windows = browser.window_handle browser.switch_to.window(windows[-1])

Do let me know if this works!

Comments

Hello @nsv999 @Shubham,

I am facing the same error - I login into my project page and the landing page has a link that am trying to click - but get the error noted above.

Any insights into what else could be wrong?

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Hey,  it heavily depends on a use case, please elaborate regarding your query with the code snippet you have used. However, you could try using XPath instead of the CSS selector though along with the explicit wait and check if that works.

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Hello,

Have you tried increasing the timeout in wait = WebDriverWait(browser, 10)to a larger number to see whether that reduces your timeouts? You can put a try/except block around waiter.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located(...)) to explicitly handle timeout exceptions more gracefully.