Python Selenium - How to get the “Close” text to click on this button error -Unable to locate element

Question

This is the HTML

<button type="button" class="d-block p-3 mx-auto btn btn-danger btn-lg xh-highlight">
<i class="fa fa-close mr-1">
</i>
Close
</button>

And I'm trying with:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[@class = 'd-block p-3 mx-auto btn btn-danger btn-lg']").click()

driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME,"d-block").click()

print driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[contains(text(), 'Close')]").click()

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[@type = 'button' and contains(text(), 'Close')]").click()

This is the error I'm getting

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//button[@class = 'd-block p-3 mx-auto btn btn-danger btn-lg']"}
  (Session info: chrome=70.0.3538.110)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.43.600210 (68dcf5eebde37173d4027fa8635e332711d2874a),platform=Windows NT 10.0.17134 x86_64)

Answer 1

Your code is failing at the first line of the snippet, trying to locate the button by the specified classes. It's a good idea to make the locators as simple as possible.

If there is only one button with btn-danger present on the page, you could use XPath //button[contains(@class, 'btn-danger')] Add as many classes as you need so it matches only the element you want. Also, don't forget to make sure the element is fully loaded before you try to locate it.

As a note, I have found odd that XPath //button[contains(text(), 'Close')] doesn't work.