Selenium click() - selects the button but doesn't click

Question

I'm using Selenium Python to do something like a Robotic Process Automation. However, I am facing problems clicking in a button... When I click the Search button manually nothing happens, but through Selenium the alert appears:

The code I'm using is:

try:
    driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#WIN_3_1002 > div:nth-child(1)').click()
except Exception as e:
    print(e)

The html section of the button is:


   Form Control Right Panel
   
      
         
            Search

It's strange because I have a similar code that works on other pages, for the same button.

The html of a similar button:

If you have advices on the quality of my code and how to fix this problem, I would be grateful.

user_7429447 · Answer

Generally

tags are not interactable unless contenteditable="true" is set.

Some more details about the usecase would have helped us to analyze the observations in a canonical way. However to click on an element ideally you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR I:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a#WIN_3_1002 > div.btntextdiv > div.f1"))).click()

Using CSS_SELECTOR II:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a.btn.btn3d.ardbnQuery[artype='Control'][ardbn='Query']"))).click()

Note: You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

user_6793637 · Answer

Click on the a tag instead of div as the href to trigger some javascript code is on the a tag and not div.

      driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#WIN_3_1002').click()

Or try with action class

    elem = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#WIN_3_1002 > div:nth-child(1)')

    Webdriver.ActionChain(driver).move_to_element(elem).click()

try javascript executor:

    driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click()",elem)

Selenium click() - selects the button but doesn't click

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