Webdriver Selenium Frequently used expressions

  XPATH selector by class or Text

 Old

          close_button = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@class="msg-overlay-bubble-header__control artdeco-button artdeco-button--circle artdeco-button--muted artdeco-button--1 artdeco-button--tertiary ember-view"]')
            close_button.click()

New syntax and text() function is used in example

self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//button[text()="Login"]').click() 

self.driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, 'MuiButton-containedPrimary').click()

self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//button[class="MuiButton-containedPrimary"]').click()

 

Scroll into view Javascript

            #self.driver.execute_script("window.scrollBy(0, 40);")
            self.driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", button)
            sleep(self.timeout)
            self.driver.execute_script("return arguments[0].remove();", button)

 

Click an element when it is not visible

button = self.driver.find_element(By.ID, 'cta-rewriter')

self.driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", button)