selenium create a delay before selecting button by name

Question

I would like to target a button that contains the name ="loginButton", and click the element after loading etc so it doesnt click on the loading spinner. How do I go about this webdriverwait targetting the name element?

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

    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((find_element_by_name('loginButton'), "loginButton"))).click()

If you can't click it, it doesn't click it... If the delay is fixed you can use the time.sleep (yourdelay) function. — Matteo Bianchi, May 05 '21 at 07:35
its a button so it definitely clicks, question is how do i go about doing the webdriverwait delay? is my code correct? — natisaver, May 05 '21 at 07:41
Does this answer your question? [Selenium wait for element to be clickable python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39083974/selenium-wait-for-element-to-be-clickable-python) — Mate Mrše, May 05 '21 at 07:48

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 05 '21 at 07:42

You are almost correct.
For the provided example try using following code:

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

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(
EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.NAME, "loginButton")))

element.click();

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