Selenium Finding elements by class name in python

You can try to get the list of all elements with class = "content" by using find_elements_by_class_name:

a = driver.find_elements_by_class_name("content")

Then you can click on the link that you are looking for.

As per the HTML:

<html>
    <body>
    <p class="content">Link1.</p>
    </body>
<html>
<html>
    <body>
    <p class="content">Link2.</p>
    </body>
<html>

Two(2) <p> elements are having the same class content.

So to filter the elements having the same class i.e. content and create a list you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using class_name:

elements = driver.find_elements_by_class_name("content")

Using css_selector:

 elements = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(".content")

Using xpath:

elements = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[@class='content']")

Ideally, to click on the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_all_elements_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CLASS_NAME:

elements = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.CLASS_NAME, "content")))

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

elements = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".content")))

Using XPATH:

elements = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@class='content']")))

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

References

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

How to identify an element through classname even though there are multiple elements with the same classnames using Selenium and Python
Unable to locate element using className in Selenium and Java
What are properties of find_element_by_class_name in selenium python?
How to locate the last web element using classname attribute through Selenium and Python

The most simple way is to use find_element_by_class_name('class_name')

Use nth-child, for example: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_nth-child.asp

driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'p.content:nth-child(1)')

or http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_firstchild.asp

driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'p.content:first-child')

Selenium Finding elements by class name in python

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