Using Selenium in Python to click/select a radio button

Question

I am trying to select from a list of 3 buttons, but can't find a way to select them. Below is the HTML I am working with.

<input name="pollQuestion" type="radio" value="SRF"> 
    <font face="arial,sans-serif" size="-1">ChoiceOne</font><br />
<input name="pollQuestion" type="radio" value="COM">
    <font face="arial,sans-serif" size="-1">ChoiceTwo</font><br />
<input name="pollQuestion" type="radio" value="MOT">
    <font face="arial,sans-serif" size="-1">ChoiceThree</font>

I can find it by using the following code:

for i in browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[@type='radio']"):
     print i.get_attribute("value")

This outputs: SRF,COM,MOT

But I would like to select ChoiceOne. (To click it) How do I do this?

score 54 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 21 '20 at 16:55

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Use CSS Selector or XPath to select by value attribute directly, then click it.

browser.find_element_by_css_selector("input[type='radio'][value='SRF']").click()
# browser.find_element_by_xpath(".//input[@type='radio' and @value='SRF']").click()

Corrections (but OP should learn how to look up in documentation)

In Python binding, find_elements_by_css doesn't exist, it's called find_elements_by_css_selector. One should be able to look at the exception message and look back into documentation here and figure out why.
Notice the difference between find_element_by_css_selector and find_elements_by_css_selector? The first one finds the first matching element, the second one finds a list, so you need to use [0] to index. Here is the API documentation. The reason why I use the latter, is because I copied your code, which I shouldn't.

edited Feb 21 '20 at 16:55

Josh O'Brien

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answered Jan 24 '14 at 00:26

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WebDriver has no attribute 'find_elements_by_css'. I would prefer to use CSS, as I am taking it from CSS, but found more success adding [0] to the 2nd entry. – Das Bruno Jan 24 '14 at 17:21
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actually it's `find_element_by_css_selector("input[type='radio'][value='SRF']").click()` – sspross Mar 09 '18 at 06:37
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@sspross Yes, exactly. I just went ahead and edited the post so that it presents code that actually works. – Josh O'Brien Feb 21 '20 at 16:56

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 03 '18 at 06:57

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Selenium webdriver Radio button click

When i used xpath :

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='id_gender2']").click()

radio button not selected

But I used css_selector :

driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input#id_gender1").click()

radio button selected

edited Jul 03 '18 at 06:57

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answered Jul 03 '18 at 06:37

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 16 '15 at 13:44

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find_elements_by_css_selector worked for me,

browser.find_elements_by_css_selector("input[type='radio'][value='SRF']")[0].click()

answered May 16 '15 at 13:44

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that works. What I think is even better: Use `find_element` instead of `find_elements`. Then you don't get a list back so you don't have to get the element with [0]. So it would be `browser.find_element_by_css_selector("input[type='radio'][value='SRF']").click()` – Micromegas Oct 20 '20 at 02:18

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 09 '19 at 07:51

First Radio button was not selected for me also. But after inserting Time it works for me.

driver.find_element_by_class_name("login").click()
driver.find_element_by_id("email_create").send_keys("testsel000@gmail.com")
driver.find_element_by_id("SubmitCreate").click()
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#id_gender2").click()

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 11 '21 at 18:02

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Consider that you have a radio button to select either of the two options, "Male or "Female". Then try using the following :- This is in Python (Selenium).

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//label[contains(text(),'Male')]").click()

answered Oct 11 '21 at 18:02

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Welcome to Stack Overflow. Please read [answer]. OP has provided their own code, and it would be much more helpful if you referred to that code when answering instead of making up your own example. – Chris Oct 11 '21 at 18:04

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 24 '14 at 17:24

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browser.find_elements_by_xpath(".//input[@type='radio' and @value='SRF']")[0].click

This ended up being the fix. I was getting errors without the [0] there, that a list does not have a click() attribute (even though there was only 1 match). Thanks for the help user1177636!

answered Jan 24 '14 at 17:24

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In this case, you could have used browser.find_element_by_xpath(".//input[@type='radio' and @value='SRF']").click() – Invincible Nov 21 '18 at 10:49

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