How to click an element using Selenium Python - python

So I have this element in HTML...
<span style="font-size:11pt">Security</span>
... and I want to click it using Selenium in python. How can I do it? (Maybe I can identify it using onclick, but how?)
Also, here is what I've tried:
security = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[#onclick=\"on_catolog(2);\"]")
security.click()


You used wrong tag name in your XPath "//button[#onclick=\"on_catolog(2);\"]". It's not a button, but anchor tag. Try
"//a[#onclick='on_catolog(2);']"
Or click by link text:
security = driver.find_element_by_link_text("Security")
security.click()


To click on the element with text as Security you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using css_selector:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("a[onclick^='on_catolog'] > span[style='font-size:11pt']").click()
Using xpath:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[starts-with(#onclick, 'on_catolog')]/span[text()='Security']").click()
Ideally, to click on the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using CSS_SELECTOR:
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a[onclick^='on_catolog'] > span[style='font-size:11pt']"))).click()
Using XPATH:
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[starts-with(#onclick, 'on_catolog')]/span[text()='Security']"))).click()
Note: You have to add the following imports :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

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