XPath 'list' object has no attribute 'click'

Question

I'm trying to select a checkbox on the following public web-page using Selenium XPath from Python and click it to change the checked status.

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-fout

For example, the checkbox that I would like to click is located under "Fluxes/Magnitudes" and is named "U" shown in the picture below.

Upon inspection of this page I built the following XPath to select the checkbox:

//*[@type ='checkbox' and @name='U'] 

This returns what I believe to be the correct element, however when I try to run click() on the object it fails with the exception 'list' object has no attribute 'click'

When I look at the functions for this object in a debugger it indeed does not have a click function.

How can this be true for a checkbox?

Is there a different element that has to be selected?

Thanks!

Answer 1

importe the required Selenium modules at the beginning of automation Python script:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

Initialize the WebDriver and navigate to the webpage:

Initialize the WebDriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-fout")

Wait for the checkbox element to be visible

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
Wait for the checkbox element to be visible (adjust timeout as needed)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
checkbox = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@type='checkbox' and @name='U']")))

click the checkbox element

checkbox.click()

Answer 2

My bad, I was using find_elements_by_xpath instead of find_element_by_xpath

Copy paste error from using another line of code