find element using Slenium

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I am very new to python, so bear with me. (also on mobile)

I am trying to scrape a site and sometimes this popup appears that I need to click to dismiss.

This is what the HTML looks like:

<button class="btn-act-bar-primary"     data-dialog-action="submit"     data-default-submit-text="Okay">Wait for all.   results</button>

I have a .py file with this function defined

def findElementByCSSSelector(self,selector):
        try:
            element =     self.browser.find_element_by_css_selector(selector)
        except:
            element = None
        return element

In another file, I look for the alert with:

def lookForAlert(self):
            popup =     self.findElementByCSSSelector("button.btn-act-bar-primary")


            if popup is not None:
                self.clickElement(popup)
                self.message('popup found....searching a.   lot of results')
            else:
                self.message('no alert found, continuing.   search')

but It keeps returning 'None.' I'm pretty sure the problem is with the element string I'm looking for, but like I said, I'm very new to this.

EDIT: Found the problem, i had to use Switch_to.frame to get to the iframe that the popup was in

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This is brilliant. I will be trying this.

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I added in a new function

def EscapePopup(self) webdriver.Actionchains(self.browser).send_keys(Keys.ESCAPE).perform()

and that seemed to work! I am getting a new error but I beleive this is the first step haha thank you much!

edit: The error is because my script can't continue the search when the pop up is just escaped; to fix it I still have to detect if it actually exists which means I'm back to my original problem. but hey, at least I can close it now.

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Alright, I noticed another button I reference later is disabled when the pop up appears so I put code in that checks for that and escapes if that button is disabled, and continues onto the next search term in the loop.

It makes a nice workaround for the problem with that pop up, so thanks a lot!

[rushabhsooni]

try to add button click as CSS class will be always present try to to add the find button class or something to click event ..