How to click on the anchor element when the spinner obscures it using Selenium and Python?

Question

I am new to selenium and i have been trying for some time to click on an anchor element. I have tried css-selector,lint_text,xpath,absolute xpath but i am still unable to cl

Answer 1

To click() on the element with text as Driver Schedule as it is an <a> node you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using LINK_TEXT:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.invisibility_of_element((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.app-spinner-layer.active")))
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "Driver Schedule"))).click()
  

• Using PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.invisibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='app-spinner-layer active']")))
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Driver Schedule"))).click()
  

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.invisibility_of_element((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.app-spinner-layer.active")))
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "li.pll a[href$='weekly-view']"))).click()
  

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.invisibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='app-spinner-layer active']")))
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[contains(@href,'weekly-view') and contains(., 'Driver Schedule')]"))).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