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How to click on a button in python using selenium with aria-label

I am trying to find and click a close button on an iframe.

<modal-container class="modal fade show" role="dialog" tabindex="-1" style="display: block;" aria-modal="true"><div role="document" class="modal-dialog modal-xl"><div class="modal-content"><div _ngcontent-gtk-c9="" class="modal-header card-header modal-header-news-expanded"><h4 _ngcontent-gtk-c9="" align="center" class="modal-title col-11 text-center">Article Title PDF </h4><button _ngcontent-gtk-c9="" aria-label="Close" class="close close_white_color" type="button"><span _ngcontent-gtk-c9="" aria-hidden="true">×</span></button></div><br _ngcontent-gtk-c9=""><div _ngcontent-gtk-c9="" class="container-fluid"><!----><div _ngcontent-gtk-c9="" class="row"><!----><div _ngcontent-gtk-c9="" class="col-md-12 ng-star-inserted"><!----><iframe _ngcontent-gtk-c9="" id="pdf_iframe_outside_modal" src="link.com" class="ng-star-inserted" cd_frame_id_="337af673cf64fd1888fcd2afe645984c"></iframe><!----></div></div><!----></div></div></div></modal-container>

I have tried the following methods:

Try1:

close = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@aria-label=Close']").click()

Try2:

close = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@class='close close_white_color']").click()

Try3:

close = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[contains(@class,\"close close_white_color\")]").click()

Which gives following error

Error1:

NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//button[@aria-label='Close']"}

Error2:

NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//button[@class='close close_white_color']"}

Error3:

NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//button[contains(@class,"close close_white_color")]"}

I am able to interact with the iframe but unable to locate this button. Any suggestions would be appreciated

Solution

  • A couple of things here:

    • The element isn't within the iframe
    • click() doesn't returns anything.

    Solution

    The desired element is within a Modal Dialog Box, to click on the clickable element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

    • Using CSS_SELECTOR:

      WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.close.close_white_color[aria-label='Close'] > span"))).click()

    • Using XPATH:

      //button[@class='close close_white_color' and @aria-label='Close']/span

    • Note: You have to add the following imports :

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