How to click a button without any id or name attributes

Question

Trying to have selenium click a button on a webpage. Cannot find the element to make it click.

<button type="submit" class="xButton xCTA xSubmit">
  <span>Enter</span>
</button>

Answer 1

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@class='xButton xCTA xSubmit'].click()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("button[type='submit']").click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[contains(text(), 'Enter')]").click()

Any of those should do the trick.

Answer 2

Though the <button> have no or attribute you can still use the other attributes, e.g. class, innerText, etc.

To click() on the element with text as Enter you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element to be clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using Python and CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.xButton.xCTA.xSubmit[type='submit'] > span"))).click()
  

• Using Java and XPATH:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//button[@class='xButton xCTA xSubmit']/span[text()='Enter']"))).click();