locate an a element and click on it in selenium pyhton

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I have this page and I want to click on the a element that sends an email(the one that is highlighted in the screenshot below

and I have tried to find this element using By.XPATH
email = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//a[contains(@class, 'email-old-32')]").click()

and By.CLASS_NAME

email = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, 'email-old-32').click()

and in both situations i’m getting an error no such element, does anyone know what am I doing wrong?

Asked By: 6rs

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There are several possible thing that may cause this:

You need to wait for element to be loaded and to become clickable. WebDriverWait expected_conditions can be used for that.
If this is your case instead of email = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//a[contains(@class, 'email-old-32')]").click() try this:

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

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)

wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[contains(@class, 'email-old-32')]"))).click()

The element class attribute value can be dynamic. Make sure it is not changing. In case it does – you need to find another, stable locator for that element.
The element can be inside iframe. In this case you will need to switch into the iframe.
Possibly you opened a new tab where the goal element is presented but forget to switch to a new tab.

Answered By: Prophet

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