AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'click' using Selenium and Python

Question

I\'d like to click the button \'Annual\' at a page that is by default set on \'Quarterly\'. There are two links that are basically called the same, except that one has

Answer 1

As per the documentation find_elements_by_xpath(xpath) returns a List with elements if any was found or else an empty list if not. Python's List have no click() method associated with it. Instead find_element_by_xpath(xpath) method have the click() method associated with it. So you have to use find_element_by_xpath(xpath) method inducing a waiter through WebDriverWait inconjunction with expected_conditions set as element_to_be_clickable(locator) as follows:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@class='newBtn toggleButton LightGray' and @data-type='rf-type-button']"))).click()

Note : You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC