[FIXED] I need to click on a td, but selenium reports an error "selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element"

Issue

This is the HTML of the page:

<td class="titulo_lateral" onclick="javascript: abreMenu(&quot;layer8&quot;);" style="cursor:pointer;">RELATÓRIOS</td>

I'm trying this:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='f']/table/tbody/tr/td/table[2]/tbody/tr/td")

Solution

You can try with below xpath.

//td[@class='titulo_lateral']

or

//td[text()='RELATÓRIOS' and contains(@onclick,'abreMenu')]

but first you will have to make sure that if it is unique in HTMLDOM or not.

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.

once we have unique matching xpath. you can try to click on it by below methodology.

Code trial 1 :

time.sleep(5)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//td[text()='RELATÓRIOS' and contains(@onclick,'abreMenu')]").click()

Code trial 2 :

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//td[text()='RELATÓRIOS' and contains(@onclick,'abreMenu')]"))).click()

Code trial 3 :

time.sleep(5)
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//td[text()='RELATÓRIOS' and contains(@onclick,'abreMenu')]")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", button)

Code trial 4 :

time.sleep(5)
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//td[text()='RELATÓRIOS' and contains(@onclick,'abreMenu')]")
ActionChains(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

Answered By - cruisepandey