[FIXED] Can't locate element with selenium to slot game icon

Issue

I am working on a selenium script in Python, where I am on this stage trying to locate a game icon.

But I can't locate it and click.

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This is what I've tried:

self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[5]/ul/li[17]/a/img')
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id="jackpot_01001"]")
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="gameList_SLOT_01001"]')
self.driver.find_element_by_id("jackpot_01001").click()

But it will show:

Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"/html/body/div[5]/ul/li[17]/a/img"} (Session info: chrome=93.0.4577.82)

Solution

This error

Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"/html/body/div[5]/ul/li[17]/a/img"} (Session info: chrome=93.0.4577.82)

implies that Either one of the following :

1. Element locator is not correct.
2. Element is in iframe.
3. Element is in shadow root.

I am not sure if //li[@id='gameList_SLOT_01001'] or /html/body/div[5]/ul/li[17]/a/img is unique or not. You need to check in HTML DOM.

PS : Please check in the dev tools (Google chrome) if we have unique entry in HTML DOM or not.

Steps to check:

Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL + F -> then paste the xpath and see, if your desired element is getting highlighted with 1/1 matching node.

If it happens to be a unique node, then put some waits and then perform the click.

Update 1:

There are 4 ways to click in Selenium.

I will use this xpath

//li[@id='gameList_SLOT_01001']/descendant::img

Code trial 1:

time.sleep(5)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//li[@id='gameList_SLOT_01001']/descendant::img").click()

Code trial 2:

WebDriverWait(self.driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//li[@id='gameList_SLOT_01001']/descendant::img"))).click()

Code trial 3 :

time.sleep(5)
button = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//li[@id='gameList_SLOT_01001']/descendant::img")
self.driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", button)

Code trial 4 :

time.sleep(5)
button = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//li[@id='gameList_SLOT_01001']/descendant::img")
ActionChains(self.driver).move_to_element(button).click().perform()

Imports :

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

Update 2 :

Since it's a new tab, you would have to switch to it first before interacting with any web element on this new tab.

self.driver.find_element_by_id('RTGWEB-RTGWEB').click()
time.sleep(5)
self.driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[1])
time.sleep(5)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//li[@id='gameList_SLOT_01001']/descendant::img").click()

Answered By - cruisepandey