Click on a submenu with python selenium

Question

Someone can help me please?

[menu and page]

I've tried find_element_by:

td: I can't find which is the correct id index;

xpath: its xpath change every page refresh;

class menuItem: brought the menu above;

text_link: no such element: Unable to locate element;

css td.menuItemSeleccionado: no such element: Unable to locate element;

classe menuItemSeleccionado: no such element: Unable to locate element

Someone has any idea?

Answer 1

Based on the provided page source the XPath for submenu could be like:

"//td[contains(text(), 'Pesquisa Contratos')]"

and in order to click it you have to:

• 1 Click (or hover) the parent menu

  There might be a better way to locate the menu item, but you can try to use the partial text:

  to click:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, 
  "//*[contains(text(), 'De Contratos E Cart')]"))).click()
  

  to hover:

  menu_item = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, 
  "//*[contains(text(), 'De Contratos E Cart')]")))
  ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(menu_item ).perform()
  

• 2 Wait for the submenu element to be clickable and click it

  WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, 
  "//td[contains(text(), 'Pesquisa Contratos')]"))).click()
  

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imports

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