How to find element using onclick in selenium Python?

Question

My HTML:

<tr>
            <td width="5%" align="center" height="25">&nbsp;1</td>
            <td width="20%" height="25">&nbsp;&nbsp;Mahamoodha Bi H</td>
            <td width="5%" align="center" height="25">&nbsp;356159</td>
            <td width="5%" align="center" height="25">&nbsp;Female</td>
            <td width="10%" align="center" height="25">&nbsp;32 Years</td>
            <td width="15%" align="center" height="25">&nbsp;22/09/2021 03:00 PM</td>
            <td width="15%" height="25">&nbsp;01/10/2021 03:53 PM</td>
            <td width="15%" height="25" align="center">&nbsp;01/10/2021 12:14 PM</td>
            <td width="5%" height="25" align="center">
              <img class="imgButtonStyle" src="../../images/continue.png" onclick="loadDischargeSummaryListDetails('3163','356159',1);" width="20" height="20">
            </td>
        </tr>

I have a list of rows like the one above. I need to iterate through the rows and click on the last column of each row to get the data I need and close the same. I am new to python and selenium and not sure how to go about it.

The only unique data are the data in the third column, which is a ID number and the "onclick" value in "img" tag on the last column. The other data repeat either in every row or in some rows.

I have collected these separately using beautifulsoup.

I was able to find the ID number element using the code below but I don't know how to use this to click on the last element of the row.
```
selection = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//td[contains(text(),'{}')]".format(ID))
```
I got the 'onclick' value, but I don't know how to search for the clickable element using the value. I tried the code below, but it throws a "InvalidSelectorException" error.
```
selection = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//img[@onclick=\"{}\")]".format(onclick))
```

I am stuck here and don't know how to select and click the element.

I solved it by using the following code:

#Select the table 
tab = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#ipDischargeView > table:nth-child(1) > tbody:nth-child(1) > tr:nth-child(2) > td:nth-child(2) > table:nth-child(1)')
#Find the total number of rows containing the imgButtonStyle
raw_list = len(tab.find_elements_by_class_name('imgButtonStyle'))
for n in range(0,raw_list):
    
    #freshly search the page each iteration for the same table
    tab = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#ipDischargeView > table:nth-child(1) > tbody:nth-child(1) > tr:nth-child(2) > td:nth-child(2) > table:nth-child(1)')

    #Select the particular row from the list
    patient = tab.find_elements_by_class_name('imgButtonStyle')[n]

Is there a more simple or elegant way to do this? This seems quite repetitive and inefficient

I think this post can help you: find-and-click-an-item-from-onclick-partial-value — Rutangaba
– Rutangaba, Commented Oct 6, 2021 at 15:44

Muhteva · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-07 10:54:56Z

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One way to reach to the last column (last list element) is like this:

selection = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//td[contains(text(),'{}')]//parent::tr//td".format(ID))[-1]

With this line of code, first you determine the location of ID, then return to the tr HTML element and then get the last td within the tr.

edited Oct 7, 2021 at 10:54

answered Oct 6, 2021 at 15:48

Muhteva

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One Face Over a year ago

selection = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//td[contains(text(),'{}')]//parent::tr//td".format(ID))[-1] The square bracket was in the wrong place. Otherwise this works fine

Muhteva Over a year ago

Oops, sorry for that. Corrected.

pmadhu · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-07 06:28:21Z

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Since you have mentioned that you want to iterate over the rows, try like below once:

Get the locator that highlights all the tr tags of the table. And iterate over them to find details.

Use a . at the beginning of the xpath to find element within an element.

table = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("xpath for tr tags") # Should highlight all the `tr` tags

for row in table:
    id = row.find_element_by_xpath(".//td[3]").text # Assuming that the 3rd `td` tag contains the ID
    onclick = row.find_element_by_xpath(".//img").get_attribute("onclick") # Gets the value of onclick.

answered Oct 7, 2021 at 6:28

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