Question

I am using Selenium webdriver in Python for a web-scraping project.

I would like to login by entering the login details and then click the submit button.

I am able to enter the Username and Password. But I am not able to mouseclick the submit button.

The “submit” button is of type <input>.

<input type="image" src="/images/buttons/loginnow.gif" tabindex="3">

Here is the python code where I am trying to click the mouse.

submitButton=driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@type='image'][@src='/images/buttons/loginnow.gif']")
driver.click(submitButton)

I get the following error :

AttributeError: ‘WebDriver’ object has no attribute ‘click’

Any idea how to fix it or any other alternative solution to login to a website in Python.

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to call the click function of the element, not the driver.

submitButton=driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@type='image'][@src='/images/buttons/loginnow.gif']")
submitButton.click()