selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: 'script' must be a string while using execute_script() through Selenium Python

Question

I\'ve got an issue with browser.execute_script while using selenium with python. There is an element that i\'d like to click (it\'s xpath below)

\"//*[@id=\'lis         


        

Answer 1

The correct way to execute a script is to actually write a JavaScript script!.

The click() function of selenium is on the element of the DOM you have located not a script.

As @Andersson suggested try browser.execute_script('arguments[0].click();', navMenu)

I can see you added a sleep for 3 seconds... Using Selenium we generally use WebDriverWait you can learn more about wait's here.

If it's too complicated you can just start with driver.implicitly_wait(3) instead of sleep.

Edit:

If the Element is not displayed yet you can just use navMenu.is_displayed()

Hope this helps you.