Click "Next" button on webpage using selenium in python

Question

I have a very simple webpage expecting to click on "NEXT" button after inputting an activation code. But i am not able to find the element by value/name "next" .From the inspect element

<input type="submit" name="activationpage1:j_id_id18" value="Next &gt;&gt;" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;text-align:center;" />

How can I achieve this in python code to click on the button named Next>>?

Search for an element with `name="activationpage1:j_id_id18"` or `value="Next >>"`. — John Gordon, Jan 08 '20 at 23:12
@Jortegafrom selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Safari() driver.get("http://acttivatexample.com/first/fast/actvn/") activkey = driver.find_element_by_id("showActivation") activkey.send_keys("mykey") driver.find_element_by_name("next").click() — chetan honnavile, Jan 08 '20 at 23:17
why do you use name `"next"` if in code you have `name="activationpage1:j_id_id18"` - you have to use `find_element_by_name("activationpage1:j_id_id18")` — furas, Jan 08 '20 at 23:45
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score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '20 at 23:50

This element has name "activationpage1:j_id_id18" so use

driver.find_element_by_name("activationpage1:j_id_id18")

Or you can use xpath like

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@name="activationpage1:j_id_id18"]')

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@value="Next &gt;&gt;"]')

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@type="submit"]')

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;text-align:center;"]')

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 09 '20 at 09:48

To click() on the element with text as Next >> you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name^='activationpage'][value^='Next'][type='submit']"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[starts-with(@name,'activationpage') and starts-with(@value,'Next')][@type='submit']"))).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

Click "Next" button on webpage using selenium in python

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