It might not work finding the element because it's not visible in UI - it is loaded but not visible, the easiest way is to move to that element and click on it.

next_button = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('[aria-label=\'Next\']')
actions = ActionChains(driver)
actions.move_to_element(next_button).perform()
next_button.click()
Answer from Alin Stelian on Stack Overflow
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/learnpython › selenium can't find the element i'm searching for
r/learnpython on Reddit: Selenium can't find the element I'm searching for
February 26, 2020 - It looks weird, but I've done plenty of web scraping with selenium as well as setting up databases. It starts to look weirder without the three apostrophes. ... I could only see ' in your xpath, if you use " " you can use ' ' inside the xpath, and if you have " in your xpath, you can use ' ' ... Hard to say without seeing the html structure, but you could first try to debug how far you can functionally select, eg does · find_element_by_css_selector('app-employee-tables')
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Reflect
reflect.run › articles › everything-you-need-to-know-about-nosuchelementexception-in-selenium
Everything you need to know about NoSuchElementException in Selenium | Reflect
Let’s take a look at the three most common Selenium exceptions remaining. InvalidSelectorExceptionis thrown by By when the selector passed as a parameter is a CSS or XPath expression that is syntactically invalid.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/learnpython › finding items with selenium by css selector using multiple attributes
r/learnpython on Reddit: finding items with selenium by CSS selector using multiple attributes
March 23, 2023 -

Hi all. I'm trying to use Selenium to find an element by CSS selector and although I've tried using the documentation, I think I'm misunderstanding something.

This is what I'm trying:

driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR,f"img [src='images/icons/new.gif'][alt='Add new item to list']").click()

This is the element I want to find and click:

<img src="images/icons/new.gif" alt="Add new item to list">

The error I get is as follows:

Exception has occurred: NoSuchElementException
Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"img [src='images/icons/new.gif'][alt='Add new item to list']"}

I can see it's on the page, however, so I'm not sure what I'm missing. I can find other items using XPATH and ID so selenium is up and running, just to rule that out. Can anybody suggest anything?

(I'm using selenium 4.8.2 and python 3.11.1, if that helps)

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Selenium
selenium.dev › documentation › webdriver › troubleshooting › errors
Understanding Common Errors | Selenium
You may have used a CSS or XPATH selector as a parameter to an ID selector. ... The element can not be found at the exact moment you attempted to locate it.
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freeCodeCamp
forum.freecodecamp.org › python
Selenium | css-selector not found - Python - The freeCodeCamp Forum
April 1, 2021 - Hi, I’m trying stuf with selenium. For some reason the selector I get isn’t found. code: #Importing libraries from selenium import webdriver import pandas as pd from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys import time # creating instance for web driver driver = webdriver.Chrome() driver.get("https://soundcloud.com/discover") print( driver.title) inputElement = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#app > header > div > div.header__middle > div > form > input") inputElement.send_keys...
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Quora
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How to handle being unable to locate an element in Selenium - Quora
Below is a compact, practical workflow and patterns to diagnose and resolve "element not found" issues. 1) Immediate checks (fast failures to rule out basics) Confirm the selector is correct: test the same CSS/XPath in browser DevTools (Elements ...
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Selenium Python
selenium-python.readthedocs.io › locating-elements.html
4. Locating Elements - Selenium with Python - Read the Docs
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//button[text()="Some text"]') driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, '//button') The attributes available for the By class are used to locate elements on a page. These are the attributes available for By class: ID = "id" NAME = "name" XPATH = "xpath" LINK_TEXT = "link text" PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT = "partial link text" TAG_NAME = "tag name" CLASS_NAME = "class name" CSS_SELECTOR = "css selector"
Find elsewhere
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GitHub
github.com › SeleniumHQ › selenium › issues › 10906
[🐛 Bug]: dotnet - FindElement By Id Exception says that it is using the CssSelector and it might cause confusion when debugging. · Issue #10906 · SeleniumHQ/selenium
July 26, 2022 - Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"#PassedValue"} This seems to be caused by the way that the By class is used, for example when you search by Id, it seems to use a CssSelectorMechanism and add a # to the argument.
Author   AlexWFreitas
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Google Groups
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Selenium WebDriver: Unable to Locate the Element by CSS
I suspect Selenium IDE works because it is injecting a javascript command to click on the actual element, whereas WebDriver is trying to click on the screen, and somehow getting the wrong element. I suspect this may be a case where it could be best to execute the click by a javascript command to click on the element by the known CSS locator, as used by the IDE ...
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Selenium
selenium.dev › documentation › webdriver › elements › finders
Finding web elements | Selenium
September 6, 2025 - shadow_host = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#shadow_host') shadow_root = shadow_host.shadow_root shadow_content = shadow_root.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#shadow_content') var shadowHost = _driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("#shadow_host")); var shadowRoot = shadowHost.GetShadowRoot(); var shadowContent = shadowRoot.FindElement(By.CssSelector("#shadow_content")); shadow_host = @driver.find_element(css: '#shadow_host') shadow_root = shadow_host.shadow_root shadow_content = shadow_root.find_element(css: '#shadow_content') Add Example ·
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testRigor
testrigor.com › home › blog › invalidselectorexception: understanding and handling the exception in selenium
InvalidSelectorException: Understanding and Handling the Exception in Selenium
November 24, 2023 - Use “Ctrl + F” to bring up the search box and enter your CSS or XPath selector to see if it finds the correct element. Dynamic content and elements change as per the user response, which makes it essential to handle them properly in your ...
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freeCodeCamp
forum.freecodecamp.org › python
Can't find element with Selenium/Python - Python - The freeCodeCamp Forum
August 17, 2020 - I’m trying to write my first script for Selenium/Python, so no doubt this is a very silly question. I’m trying to find the element that says “Club Pilot Airmanship” in the following HTML: This is my Python: quiz_title = driver.find_element_by_class_name(‘css-api-card-header__title’) It gives the error: File “C:\Users\RowanB\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\selenium\w ebdriver\remote\errorhandler.py”, line 242, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace...
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ScrapingBee
scrapingbee.com › webscraping-questions › selenium › how-to-find-elements-css-selector-selenium
How to find elements by CSS selector in Selenium? | ScrapingBee
Next, we can install the Python bindings for Selenium using pip, uv, or any other package management system: ... You can find elements by CSS selectors in Selenium by utilizing the find_element and find_elements methods. find_element returns ...
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/selenium › selenium can't find element with id/name
r/selenium on Reddit: Selenium can't find element with ID/Name
August 9, 2022 -

Im trying to challenge myself by making selenium redeem 1 gamepass code on microsoft issue is I Found the ID but it doesn't work as in Selenium can't find it, This is the website I need selenium to recognize and type in it

this is the error

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "c:\Users\jeans\Downloads\New folder\Microsoft\redeem.py", line 30, in <module>

gamepass = driver.find_element(By.ID, value="tokenString")

File "C:\Users\jeans\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 857, in find_element

return self.execute(Command.FIND_ELEMENT, {

File "C:\Users\jeans\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 435, in execute

self.error_handler.check_response(response)

File "C:\Users\jeans\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 247, in check_response

raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"[id="tokenString"]"}

(Session info: chrome=104.0.5112.81)

Stacktrace:

Backtrace:

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Ordinal0 [0x00E824A0+992416]

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Ordinal0 [0x00E777E0+948192]

Ordinal0 [0x00E786E6+952038]

GetHandleVerifier [0x01250CB2+2738370]

GetHandleVerifier [0x012421B8+2678216]

GetHandleVerifier [0x010317AA+512954]

GetHandleVerifier [0x01030856+509030]

Ordinal0 [0x00F4743B+1799227]

Ordinal0 [0x00F4BB68+1817448]

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BaseThreadInitThunk [0x76CEFA29+25]

RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath [0x779B7A9E+286]

RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath [0x779B7A6E+238]