I am using Selenium driver to automatically display webpages from StackOverflow. I want all the comments to be displayed in the browser, so I have code to find the elements at the bottom of the comments lists that are like this:
<a class="js-show-link comments-link " title="expand to show all comments on this post" href="#" onclick="">show <b>7</b> more comments</a>
Once I locate this element, I try a .click() method on it, but nothing happens until about the third click.
(One more thing: after I posted the question, I realize that the .click() method works if I employ it after I manually click on the link, and I reload the page. This is strange. Maybe the page needs to be in the cache?)
This used to work fine a few months ago, but now there is an event listener (a little dark icon with the letters "ev" in it) right next to this element, and the onclick attribute is an empty string.
Would the event listening bind affect the behavior of .click()? Is there a solution? Thanks.
I am using selenium in Python 2.7. Here is my code:
link = u'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549/the-definitive-guide-to-form-based-website-authentication'
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
firefox_capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX
firefox_capabilities['marionette'] = True
driver = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=firefox_capabilities)
driver.get(link)
myelement = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('[title="expand to show all comments on this post"]')
myelement.click()
