XPath 'list' object has no attribute 'click'

Question

I'm trying to select a checkbox on the following public web-page using Selenium XPath from Python and click it to change the checked status.

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-fout

For example, the checkbox that I would like to click is located under "Fluxes/Magnitudes" and is named "U" shown in the picture below.

Upon inspection of this page I built the following XPath to select the checkbox:

//*[@type ='checkbox' and @name='U'] 

This returns what I believe to be the correct element, however when I try to run click() on the object it fails with the exception 'list' object has no attribute 'click'

When I look at the functions for this object in a debugger it indeed does not have a click function.

How can this be true for a checkbox?

Is there a different element that has to be selected?

Thanks!

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Answer 1

My bad, I was using find_elements_by_xpath instead of find_element_by_xpath

Copy paste error from using another line of code

• Kate Paulk: Hi, Brian. You could improve your question by including the code you were using since only you could have answered with the information you posted.