How to click on span element with python selenium

Question

Im trying to click on this for whole day with python selenium with no luck, tried several selectors, xpath..nothing seems to be work for me. This is the element I try to click on:

<span style="vertical-align: middle;">No</span>

Here is my obviously non function code

driver.find_element_by_link_text("No")

Answer 1

Search by link text can help you only if your span is a child of anchor tag, e.g. <a><span style="vertical-align: middle;">No</span></a>. As you're trying to click it, I believe it's really inside an anchor, but if not I'd suggest you to use XPath with predicate that returns True only if exact text content matched:

//span[text()="No"]

Note that //span[contains(text(), "No")] is quite unreliable solution as it will return span elements with text

• "November rain"
• "Yes. No."
• "I think Chuck Norris can help you"

etc...

If you get NoSuchElementException you might need to wait for element to appear in DOM:

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

wait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//span[text()='No']"))).click()