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Clicking through links in Selenium Python

I have logged onto a third party website where I have a page full of URLs to click. I was able to collect the elements as such:
for i in num_alphabets:
names = browser.find_elements(by=By.CLASS_NAME, value='client-name')
print(len(names)) # gives you the number of clients!!!
So now that I have this list called names, I want to know how I can click through all these elements. For now that would be enough, later on I want to have it store some information after clicking. I tried adding .click() at the end and it obviously won't work as names is a list.
Should I maybe create an array with only the first values of the list and then click through that? browser.click() isn't a valid attribute so I don't think that would work.

Here names is the list of WebElements with value as client-name. So to click on each of those WebElements you have to iterate through the list. Incase the page doesn't changes and the client-name sections are on the same page you can use the following code block:
for name in names:
name.click()

Search for a specific element in multiple pages and click using Python Selenium

Hi im trying to navigate from page 1 to page 5 (the element can be in any of the pages)and find and click on a specific element using python selenium.
The following is the element from the page:
<span _ngcontent-mtx-c123"" class"ng-star-inserted">ABC Company</span>
i tried by using : driver.find_element_by_name("ABC Company").click() but this doesnt work.
Another Way i tried:
1. element_path="//span[contains(text(),'ABC Company')]"
2. while True:
3. if(driver.find_elements_by_xpath(element_xpath)): driver.find_element_by_xpath(element_xpath).click()
4. else: driver.find_element_by_xpath("xpath to goto next page").click()
I need the code to find element from the next pages until its found and then click it.
is there any other way to do this???
Thanks in Advance

First, you need to check if the element is present and only if it does - click it. Otherwise you will get exception while trying clicking non-existing element.
driver.find_elements returns a list of web elements matching the passed locator. So if there are such elements it will return non-empty list interpreted as True by Python. Otherwise empty list is returned interpreted as False.
As about the locator for the element you are looking for: you can locate the element according to the text it contains. It can be done with XPath.
As following:
element_xpath = "//span[contains(text(),'ABC Company')]"
if(driver.find_elements_by_xpath(element_xpath)):
driver.find_element_by_xpath(element_xpath).click()
If you need to update the XPath locator dynamically you can pass the text as parameter. Let's say you have a list of texts, you can iterate on them as following:
for txt in texts:
element_xpath = "//span[contains(text(),'{}')]".format(txt)
if(driver.find_elements_by_xpath(element_xpath)):
driver.find_element_by_xpath(element_xpath).click()

Python selenium get location of an element

So I have this site and I'm trying to obtain the location and size of an element based on this xpath "//div[#class='titlu']"
How you can see that is visible and has nothing special.
Now the problem I've faced is that when I'm doing the search for xpath like this
e = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath(xpath) the location and size
of e are both 0
Also, for some reason, if I'm trying to get the text like this:
e.text is going to show me an empty string, and I need to get the actual text in this way e.get_attribute("textContain")
So do you have any idea how can I get the location and size of this element?

There are two elements matching this xpath. driver.find_element_by_xpath returns the first one while you are looking for the second one. Use the ancestor <div> with id attribute for unique xpath
"//div[#id='content-detalii']//div[#class='titlu']"

Xpath clicking not working at all

Quick info: I'm using Mac OS, Python 3.
I have like 800 links that need to be clicked on a page (and many more pages to go so need automation).
They were hidden because you only see those links when you hover over.
I fixed that by injecting CSS rule (just saying in case its the reason it's not working).
When I try to find elements by xpath it does not want to click the links afterwards and it also doesn't find all of them always just 4 (even when more are displayed in view).
HTML:
Display
When i click ok copy xpath in inspect it gives me:
//*[#id="tiles"]/li[3]/div[2]/ul/li[2]/a
But it doesn't work when I use it like this:
driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[#id="tiles"]/li[3]/div[2]/ul/li[2]/a')
So two questions:
How do I get them all?
How do I get it to click on each of them?
The pattern in the XPath is the same, with the /li[3] being the only number that changes, for this I created a for loop to create them all based on the count on page which I did successfully.
So if it can be done with the XPaths generated by myself that are corresponding to when I copy XPath in inspector then I only need question 2 answered.
PS.: this is HTML of parent of that first HTML:
<li onclick="openPopup(event, 'collect', {item_id: 165214})" class="collect" data-item-id="165214">Display</li>

This XPath,
//a[.="Display"]
will select all a links with anchor text equal to "Display".

As per your question, the HTML you have shared and your code attempts there is no necessity to get the <li> tags. Instead we will get the <a> tags in a list. So to answer your first question How do I get them all you can use the following line of code :
all_Display = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[#id='tiles']//li/div[2]/ul/li[#class='collect']/a[#title='Display']")
Next to click on each of them you have to create a loop to iterate through all the <a> tag as follows :
all_Display = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[#id='tiles']//li/div[2]/ul/li[#class='collect']/a[#title='Display']")
for each_Display in all_Display :
each_Display.click()

Using an XPath with elements by position is not ideal. Instead use a CSS selector to match the attributes for the targeted elements.
Something like:
all_Display = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("#tiles li[onclick][data-item-id] a[title]")
You can then click them in a loop if none of them is loading a new page:
for element in all_Display:
element.click()

Get element inside current element using xpath

I have multiple questions inside which there are more than 1 options.
After selecting the required question element as question_element
I am unable to get the first text box inside this element. I used
question_element.find_elements_by_xpath("//textarea")
but it gives me list of all the elements with tag textarea in the whole webpage. I tried
question_element.find_elements_by_xpath("/textarea")
question_element.find_elements_by_xpath("./textarea")
but they didn't give any results. How do I get the first element with tag name textarea inside the question_element

There are two variants that work for search within already found element (not within the whole page):
question_element.find_elements_by_xpath(".//textarea")

Try like this
question_element.find_elements_by_xpath("//textarea[position()=1]")