How to click the search button using Selenium web driver and Python

Question

I am trying to click the button but it is not working

<button value="1" class="_42ft _4jy0 _4w98 _4jy3 _517h _51sy _4w97" aria-

label="Search" tabindex="-1" data-testid="facebar_search_button" 

type="submit"><i class="_585_"></i></button>

Answer 1

Below will help
Use xpath :- //button[@value='1' and @label='Search']

searchbutton = driver.find_element_by_xpath(//button[@value='1' and @label='Search'])

Comments

This solution is not working.It still gives an error.

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Can you please provide the error that you are facing?

Answer 2

Try this will work:

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;//create instance of javascript executor to do actions
WebElement buttonSubmit= driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@class='_42ft _4jy0 _4w98 _4jy3 _517h _51sy _4w97']"));
js.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", buttonSubmit);

Answer 3

You can try with tag.

#this code will get the list of tags and select the second tag from the list
element = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('button')[1] 
#this will click the element
element.click()

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49063338/trying-to-click-on-the-button-tag-in-selenium-web-driver-using-python