Selenium python find_element_by_class_name() stopped working from v 2.2 to 2.21 — cannot use 'Compound Class Name'

Question

I am using Selenium\'s python library to scrape data from a html page in Firefox.

I have had to update from Selenium 2.0 to 2.21 because the server has updated Firef

Answer 1

The problem about WebDriver is that it still evolves. A lot. I personally don't know about a version that supported searching by many classes in one command, so it must have been a fairly old one :).

Searching by a CSS selector should work, however:

find_element_by_css_selector(".grid-cell-inner.grid-col-name");

I don't recommend using XPath for this particular thing, because these two following expressions are a different thing:

//*[class='grid-cell-inner grid-col-name']

//*[class='grid-col-name grid-cell-inner']