Why is my element not clicking in selenium after defining xpath?

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I am writing a selenium code to go to a website and click on the following element to expand its drop down list:

Reports

Now this area is comprised of two elements.

Element 1:

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Element code: <b class="icon" id="handler2"></b>

Full Xpath: /html/body/div[4]/div/div/div[3]/div[2]/div[2]/ul/li/ul/li/p/b

Element 2:

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Element code: <p class="wrap button draggable" id="anonymous_element_1"><b class="icon" id="handler2"></b>Reports</p>

Full Xpath: /html/body/div[4]/div/div/div[3]/div[2]/div[2]/ul/li/ul/li/p

I used element 1. My selenium code is lengthy but the the line i used to click 'reports' is:

click_button=driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[4]/div/div/div[3]/div[2]/div[2]/ul/li/ul/li/p/b').click()

It doesn't click the button though. I'm not sure why. Does anyone know how I can solve this problem?. It is worth noting that if you use element 2, then a double click is required.

selenium-chromedriver selenium python-3.x python
1 Answers

Try:

click_button=driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="handler2"]').click()
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