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I am using Selenium Webdriver in Python and I got stuck trying to activate a javascript button.

What I need to do here is to click the Go to Previous Month button twice so that I have August 2014. And then I need to click on one of the days.

The images below show the code. Please tell me if I need to provide more info.

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THIS IS THE "GO TO PREVIOUS MONTH BUTTON" + INSPECT ELEMENT

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AND HERE I'VE CLICKED ON THE 1ST OF AUGUST + INSPECT ELEMENT ON "1"

How do I do it?

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Find a element by title using css selectors and do the click() event on the returned element? – Mikko Ohtamaa Oct 15 '14 at 8:46
    
How do I use the css selectors? I'm a bit of a n00b... – Alichino Oct 15 '14 at 8:51
    
Cool! No problem - clarified the answer in the Answer section. – Mikko Ohtamaa Oct 15 '14 at 8:56
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First find your element with CSS selectors (you need to be familiar how CSS selectors work - this is prerequisite for most web development):

elem = webdriver.find_element_by_css_selector("a[title='Go to previous month']")[0]

Related WebDriver documentantion.

Then when you get your elem (there might paeg loading time, etc. issues you need to deal with) you can click it.

 elem.click()

See also: wait for page load in selenium

Related click() documentation.

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Oh, I forgot to mention that there are actually two calendars on that page, and both have "Go to the previous month" as title of the "<" button... I guess I need to be more specific exactly where I want to press the button. Using xpath? – Alichino Oct 15 '14 at 9:32
    
find_element_by_css_selector() returns multiple elements. Just pick the first or the last one. – Mikko Ohtamaa Oct 15 '14 at 11:37
    
It's taken a few days, but I finally got it :D Thanks! – Alichino Oct 17 '14 at 14:32
    
Cool. No problem :) – Mikko Ohtamaa Oct 17 '14 at 14:33

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