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help! why can't this simply python script find the login element?... http://pastebin.com/Kbpcj5nG

if you visit the url you'll see that element with that id exists?!?!?!

help! why can't this simply python script find the login element?... http://pastebin.com/Kbpcj5nG if you visit the url you'll see that element with that id exists?!?!?!

help! why can't this simply python script find the login element?... http://pastebin.com/Kbpcj5nG if you visit the url you'll see that element with that id exists?!?!?!

I'm trying to .click() a button element

but I get a "NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element:"

buttonInputElement = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//button[text="Start Your Quote"]')

this is how I'm finding the button

I also tried text()="Start Your Quote"

and @text="Start Your Quote"

[13selenium] 15lukeis closed pull request #1709: Fixing memory leak in TemporaryFileSystem (06master...06krmahadevan-temFileSystemFix) 02https://git.io/v2gNJ

chris______: try "//button[.='Start your quote']"

ok

invalid syntax

invalid?

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[.='Start your quote']") seems to be valid

chris______: you need to use double quotes on the outside

traceback: https://bpaste.net/show/c6f156ece89b

roger

Wasn't able to find elment

I'm using the Chrome()

as driver

have a sample page?

same for you?

Yea, it's farmers.com

their homepage

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[contains(.,'Start Your Quote')]") works

case sensitive and it actually has some whitespace after Quote....

xpath finding by text is never great ;)

yea.

I tried css selector

and class name

but neither had worked

people suggest just grabbing the xpath from debug tools

and that worked

but best solution someone told me was just use .send_keys("94014" + Keys.RETURN)

thanks for the suggestion though. I'm sure that will come in handy at some point.