Bumping this from two months ago since I have not found a solution. I am using Firefox driver to find and then click on a hyperlink named "Inbox" but after exhaustive attempts, Selenium still can't find the element. Any help would be appreciated as I genuinely have not been able to find a reason why Selenium webdriver cannot find the element.
In the below HTML code, I have considered that there might be a frame but none can be found; if someone could confirm that there in fact is no iframe in the below code that would be appreciated! I also already have a time.sleep(40) in my script to allow for enough time for webdriver to find the element. So I am running out of ideas, but was thinking that maybe the #text element ("  ") right before the "inbox" hyperlink element might be causing the issue by hiding the "inbox" element? Any tips on how to proceed would be appreciated; all my attempts at resolution are listed below.
Below is my code up until this element issue comes up (URL has been removed as it is proprietary):
from selenium import webdriver
import time
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("[URL REMOVED]")
time.sleep(2)
elem1 = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#main-content > div > div.col-md-4.radix-layouts-sidebar.sidebar-right.panel-panel.sidebar > div > div.panel-pane.pane-entity-field.pane-it-service-field-related-services.block > div > div > ul > li:nth-child(1) > a')
elem1.click()
#Logging in
time.sleep(40)
#Now in the System, click on Inbox Button
elem2 = driver.find_element_by_??? # Trying to figure out this code to find inbox element
elem2.click()
I have tried the below in trying to find the element :
find_element_by_xpath('//td[@class=’MENUCHOICE’]//a[@href="main.do?action=inbox"]')
find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/table/tbody/tr[6]/td/a')
find_element_by_link_text('Inbox')
find_element_by_partial_link_text('Inb')
find_element_by_css_selector('body > table > tbody > tr:nth-child(6) > td > a')
find_element_by_css_selector("td.MENUCHOICE a[href='main.do?action=inbox']")
All the locators I have tried raise 'selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element'
I cannot provide the link to the page as it's proprietary, but below I have provided the page HTML in case someone can assist (The element of interest is under the second to last MENUCHOICE class: Inbox):
<html>
<!--702.15-->
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<title>UDM - Notification System</title>
<style type="text/css">
td.MENU1 {
FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
FONT-SIZE: 18pt;
FONT-WEIGHT: medium;
color: navy;
}
td.MENU2 {
FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
FONT-SIZE: 15pt;
FONT-WEIGHT: medium;
color: navy;
}
td.MENUCHOICE {
FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
FONT-SIZE: 14pt;
FONT-WEIGHT: medium;
color: blue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" background="payadm/images/background.gif">
<table width="750" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><img height="55" width="129" src="payadm/images/udm_cw100.gif"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> <img src="payadm/images/footerline.gif"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="MENU1"> AN Main Menu</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="MENUCHOICE"> Notification Functions:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="MENUCHOICE">
<a href="main.do?action=inbox">Inbox</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="MENUCHOICE">
<a href="main.do?action=notificationSel">Notification Selection</a>
</td>
</tr>
Thanks for the help.
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