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I'm trying to choose a checkbox from a certain website. this is a part of their HTML code.

<div class="deliveryCheckboxContainer">
                                                        
<input class="deliveryCheckbox hiddenCheckbox" id="deliveryCheckbox-684" data-deliveryid="684" type="checkbox" /><label for="deliveryCheckbox-684" class=" checkbox classic"></label>
        
</div>

I tried a few different approaches. I either get an error saying the element isn't there or that it cannot be interacted with.

This is an example of what I tried:

browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="deliveryCheckbox-684"]').click()
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  • Did you try clicking on the label element? Commented Apr 5, 2021 at 11:54

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It’s likely a timing issue. Many pages dynamically build DOM structure after they load.

Try adding a sleep for a second or two after loading the URL before trying to find that element. For the most robustness, you would put that in a loop and timeout after 10 seconds or so.

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Adding a hardcoded delay is not a good practice. Wait until element is visible / clickable is preferred.
For debugging it is the fastest solution. After an element is located explicit wait is added instead of time.sleep().
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First, check answer above about timing issue. Second, I think that you are trying to find a dynamic id locator. Try to find by css.

browser.find_element_by_css_selector('.deliveryCheckbox.hiddenCheckbox').click()

Also, try using the xpath in the case when label is what you really need to click:

browser.find_element_by_xpath("//label[contains(@for,'deliveryCheckbox')]")
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WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//label[@for='deliveryCheckbox-684']"))).click()

You'd have induce waits for the element to be clickable and click the label tag.

Import

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait 
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
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Thank you for all the answers, this one worked.
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As far as I know, you can't click on hidden elements in selenium, and class "hiddenCheckbox" implies that it is indeed hidden. Apart from that, including errors you get and the website you are trying to scrape would make additional help possible. Currently I can only tell you to make the checkbox visible in some way.

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Try using the time.sleep() function to see whether it is then able to click the check box or not. If it does, then use try and except method to find if the checkbox has been loaded and then click it and move forward. As suggested above, that sleep function is not a good practice.

If the program is unable to locate the checkbox, then try navigating to it through driver.find_element_by_id. Navigating elements by Id is by far the best technique I've ever used.

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