click() element method - Selenium Python

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Syntax -

element.click()

Example -

<a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/" id="link" />

To find an element one needs to use one of the locating strategies, For example,

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
element = driver.find_element(By.ID, "link")
element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//a[@id='link']")

Also, to find multiple elements, we can use -

elements = driver.find_elements(By.ID, "link")

Now one can click this element with

element.click()

How to use click element method in Selenium Python ?

Let's use https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ to illustrate this method in Selenium Python. Here we click courses tab in navigation bar at geeksforgeeks

Program -

# import webdriver
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
# create webdriver object
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
# get geeksforgeeks.org
driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/")
# get element 
element = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "Courses")
# click the element
element.click()

Output-