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I have this code:
I have a problem clicking a button.
driver.find_element_by_xpath("(.//*[normalize-space(text()) and normalize-space(.)='Editează'])[20]/following::a[1]").click()
And I receive this error:
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"(.//*[normalize-space(text()) and normalize-space(.)='Editează'])[20]/following::a[1]"}
(Session info: chrome=73.0.3683.86)
Any ideas?
I'm not an expert in xPath, but my understanding is that
.//*[normalize-space(text()) and normalize-space(.)='Editează'])[20]
will lead you to the 20th element with Editează. In this case, it is already a link (a tag).
Therefore, /following::a[1] will try to find a link inside a link - which leads to a failure.
Maybe only
//a[text()='Editează'][20]
will be enough.
If this is the last td of the last tr of the table, I would recommend using
//table/tr[last()]/td[last()]/a[contains(@href,'edit')]
Especially if the website is multilanguage, and you are not trying to check the text of the button, but trying to achieve the edit action
