Weird Python Selenium Button Click Behaviour -

the part i'm trying click:

<ul class="btns right"> <li><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="hr_expand_event_tab_all(&quot;&quot;)" class="expand-all" id="btn_expand_all_10580503">view cards</a></li> </ul> 

pretty straightforward thought. seem missing something.

question updated little further down page. xpath isn't problem i've tried corrected xpath , it's same using class name. css hiding several versions of button common.exception being thrown on ones find xpath or class name.

i've checked page loaded , element there. have check wait until full page loaded , screenshots sure.

loadbutton = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@class='expand-all']") 

gives:

<class 'selenium.common.exceptions.elementnotvisibleexception'> 

so tried find onclick anchor:

loadbutton = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//li[contains(@onclick, 'view cards')]") 

with same outcome. i've tried bit of regex catch id variations i'm not sure i'm going wrong here. there's onlick , loaded can't see find it.

i'd appreciate can show me i'm doing wrong on one.

/update:

turns out there's multiple versions of button visible , others not.

i looped:

loadbutton = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//a[@class='expand-all']") button in loadbutton:   print "button found" 

it turned multiple results. earlier ones hidden ones @ end showing on browser , screenshot. expected ones fail , added .click() try: except: , failed still. didn't expect that.

further update:

so ran this:

loadbutton = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//a[@class='expand-all']") button in loadbutton:   print "button found"   try:     button.click()   except:     e = sys.exc_info()[0]     print e 

the first couple gave me this:

<class 'selenium.common.exceptions.elementnotvisibleexception'> 

ok expected css hiding it. last 2 displaying gave this:

<class 'selenium.common.exceptions.webdriverexception'> 

so can see them. won't click them. "common exception" doesn't seem overly helpful.

try xpath (updated code block site removed *)

//*[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' btns right ')]//*[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' expand-all ') , contains(text(), 'view cards')]

provide wait element clickable(implicit recommended).

i have used java , refered here python here may help!!

from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions ec  wait = webdriverwait(driver, 10) button = wait.until(ec.element_to_be_clickable((by.xpath,'//*[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' btns right ')]//*[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' expand-all ') , contains(text(), 'view cards')]'))) button.click()   if above thing fails, try 

form these links link1 , link2

driver.execute_script("document.getelementsbyclassname('expand-all')[0].click();") 

inject artificial click on desired element, remove(comment) other codes

may ur app falls under link2 op :)