How to select element using XPATH syntax on Selenium for Python?

HTML

<div id='a'>  <div>    <a class='click'>abc</a>  </div></div>

You could use the XPATH as :

//div[@id='a']//a[@class='click']

output

<a class="click">abc</a>

That said your Python code should be as :

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='a']//a[@class='click']")

Check this blog by Martin Thoma. I tested the below code on MacOS Mojave and it worked as specified.

> def get_browser():>     """Get the browser (a "driver").""">     # find the path with 'which chromedriver'>     path_to_chromedriver = ('/home/moose/GitHub/algorithms/scraping/'>                             'venv/bin/chromedriver')>     download_dir = "/home/moose/selenium-download/">     print("Is directory: {}".format(os.path.isdir(download_dir)))> >     from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options>     chrome_options = Options()>     chrome_options.add_experimental_option('prefs', {>         "plugins.plugins_list": [{"enabled": False,>                                   "name": "Chrome PDF Viewer"}],>         "download": {>             "prompt_for_download": False,>             "default_directory": download_dir>         }>     })> >     browser = webdriver.Chrome(path_to_chromedriver,>                                chrome_options=chrome_options)>     return browser