Xpath element not found

Question

I was using Selenium,Python and Chromedriver script which will login to a website and use click on a download button which will download a CSV file.

Check the inspect details of download button below:

<button id="csv-button" class="block tiny-margin-top" data-args="csv">
      CSV
</button>

XPath is:

//*[@id="csv-button"]

but it shows an error that XPath element not found when I execute the script. Below is the code:

click_button = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="csv-button"]')
click_button.click()

Answer 1

You need to induce WebDriverWait with expected_conditions clause set to element_to_be_clickable as follows:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
# other code    
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='csv-button']"))).click()

You can also use:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
# other code    
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@class='block tiny-margin-top' and @id='csv-button']"))).click()