python - Selenium - Not able to find Button Element in HTML code

Question

I have just started learning Selenium and was playing around a bit trying to automate a search on the secondhand clothing website vinted.fr.

I was able to find all necessary Elements in the HTML code, except one:
-The Button to change the "sort by" functionality to "newest". ( This is a Screenshot of the Page including the Button I want to press)


Now I am wondering, what the Problem might be:
-Is it possible, that the button is not having a "button" tag in the HTML code. If yes how do I find and click this element?
-Am I just searching at wrong position?


Here is the HTML source code where I suggest the button element to be in:

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65850032/selenium-not-able-to-find-button-element-in-html-code

Answer 1

To click on the element to set sort by functionality to newest you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "ul.pile li:nth-of-type(4) label"))).click()
  

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//ul[@class='pile']//li[@class='pile__element'][last()]//label"))).click()
  

• 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