Python Selenium Xpath

Question

I'm using Xpath and having trouble pulling out what information I need from this HTML info to click this button:

[@id='domain-members']/div[@id='app']/div[@id='frameworkModule']/div[@id='header'][1]/nav[@class='navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top navbar-primary flex background']/div[@id='nav2']/ul[@class='flex no-padding height-50 list-style-none']/li[@class='dropdown dropdown-accordion nav-hover sysf-resources-module flex-1 flex']/span/a[@class='icon flex-1 flex justify-content-center align-items-center']

my code is:

folder = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[@title='______']")
folder.click()

any help or resources to point me towards where I can better find the info I want would be a great help!

• cruisepandey: Can you share the actual HTML ? the one that you've shared looks like a xpath itself
• SSerb1989: @cruisepandey heres a snip:ibb.co/wp2b2SK Its a dropdown menu and i need to select All Files

Answer 1

This HTML is not built using Select and options tag, so one can not use Select class from Selenium.

Instead try to click directly :-

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@href='#resources']"))).click()
time.sleep(5)
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "All Files"))).click()

Imports :

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

• SSerb1989: Thank you! I have an error message now Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Users/Sserb/PycharmProjects/WeSnare/main.py", line 33, in <module> WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//ul[@class='dropdown-menu']"))).click() File "C:\Users\Sserb\PycharmProjects\WeSnare\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\wait.py", line 80, in until raise TimeoutException(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:
• cruisepandey: Is page url public ?
• SSerb1989: Its not, unfortunately. Is there a specific thing i can look for for you in the HTML?
• cruisepandey: When you manually hover on this drop down, what is the HTML code, also please give me in text format. This is the way to share in text format :- Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> then right click on the element you want to share the outer HTML - > select copy and then outer HTML
• SSerb1989: <a href="#resources" class="icon flex-1 flex justify-content-center align-items-center" title="Files" data-toggle="dropdown"><i class="fas fa-briefcase fa-fw"></i></a>