I'am using selenium framework to test my own website. Im trying to click on specific icon which using anchor tag. I have java selenium code to click but couldn't click. Tried many xpath, css selectors, class name and names. but didn't worked. But can run the script and it is opening the chrome and navigating to entered domain but the clicking option is not working
above code I need to click nav-twitter class anchor option . which will create another tab in chrome to show my twitter page. but after running the app .it is only navigating to the page domain and nothing works.
So, This is my code where I have added. until the maximize everything works but not the anchor tag
This kind of error im getting when running the script in chrome. Please anyone let me know where I have been wrong here or is there are any way to make it happen. Thanks in advance.
Whenever you are initiating webdriver make sure to add implicit wait statement, so it can wait for sometime before looking for objects. Add below statement right after chromedriver initialization and your code should work without any issues.
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
Your locator is slightly off. In your code you are looking for an element with tagName as twitter which doesn't exists. Instead you can use either of the following locator strategies:
Using cssSelector:
WebElement navTwitter = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a.nav-twitter[name='twitter']"));
navTwitter.click();
Using xpath:
WebElement navTwitter = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[#class='nav-twitter' and name='twitter']"));
navTwitter.click();
You have used wrong selector/locator here. "twitter" is not tag name, Tag name is the value from less than symbol to the first space or greater than symbol. Words like div, p, a, span are the tag names.
So here a is the tag name and name, class, href are attribute which you can use while forming xpath or css locators. So you can create multiple locators here:
By using class name attribute
By.className("nav-twitter");
By creating xpath using name attribute
By.xpath("//a[#name='twitter']");]
By creating xpath using class attribute
By.xpath("//a[#class='nav-twitter']");
By creating css locator using class attribute.
By.cssSelector("a[class*='nav-twitter']");
By using dot symbol in css selector with class name
By.cssSelector("a.nav-twitter");
Similarly you can create css selector with name too. Since there are multiple tags, so you can not use a tag directly and If you want to use By.tagName("a") then it will click on first tag present on the page
Note: We use dot with class name and Hash (#) with Id name while forming css selectors.
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I have this code:
Then using selenium I write this:
driver.findElement(By.className("extra-delivery-item")).click();
The question is why does selenium tell me:
no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":".extra-delivery-item"
P.S. I have already located some buttons and successfully clicked on them, everything works, except that button.
This element is actually has multiple class names. So to select it according to single class name you can use XPath or CSS selector.
Like this:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[contains(#class,'extra-delivery-item')]")).click();
or
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.extra-delivery-item")).click();
Selecting element by class name, like you tried to use
findElement(By.className("extra-delivery-item"))
means matching element with class attribute exactly matching that value, extra-delivery-item in this case. While the element class attribute here is extra-delivery-item extra-delivery-item-selected
I am trying to click a button from a list but this button has the same class than others in the list because they have the same name (btn ban-red) so how can I click it if in the inspect I have this information:
<a class=“btn ban-red” data-track-event=“navigate” data-track=name=“Jobylon” - Quality Engineer” href=“https://emp.jobylon.com/jobs/16654-f/” target=“_blank”>View job/a>
The inspect is copying this xpath:
/html/body/div[1]/div[4]/div/div/div/div[3]/div/div/div/div[1]/section/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/article[14]/a
But it is not working
I also created my own xpath this way:
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//a[#data-track-name=‘Jobylon - Quality Engineer’]"))).click();
But is not working either
I am using Selenium with java and I am in a Macbook, thank you for your help.
Absolute xpath not recommended. You can try using relative xpath.
Locate based on element text
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(.,'View job')]")).click()
Locate using combination of element attribute if classes are not unique
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[#class='btn ban-red'][#data-track-event='navigate']")).click()
OR
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[#class="btn ban-red"][#href='https://emp.jobylon.com/jobs/16654-f/']")).click()
Better to use CSS selector as its faster then xpath. So you try like
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[class='btn ban-red'][data-track-event='navigate']")).click()
OR
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[class="btn ban-red"][href='https://emp.jobylon.com/jobs/16654-f/']")).click()
Still facing some issue like element not visible or no such element then try with explicit wait conditions until your element gets visible or clickable.
click here to check the page I am working on
The following is the java code:
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[#id='ref_2665398031']/li[4]/a/span1")).click();
The element is actually in the left navigation pane.
Here when this particular statement is getting executed, I can see that browser is moving down, but it does not click that element.
You have not properly written the xpath:
".//*[#id='ref_2665398031']/li[4]/a/span1"
it should be : "//[#id='ref_2665398031']/li[4]/a/span[1]"
and if using WebDriver then
"//[#id=\"ref_2665398031\"]/li[4]/a/span[1]"
After correcting above if still error exists:
You are using a relative path which is relative to the element having id='ref_2665398031.
This id seems to be generated dynamically.
Please confirm two things:
Your code is not giving element not found error.
Page refresh is not changing this id. (If it is being generated dynamically than it will change on page refresh.)
Otherwise try using different approach:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(text(), '50% Off or more')]"));
Use this xpath:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//ul[#id='ref_2665398031']/li[4]/a/span[1]")).click();
Try Below xpath it is working for me
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//ul[contains(#id,'ref_2665398031')]/li[4]/a")).click();
Try JavaScriptExecutor instead of using normal Selenium click method.
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//span[contains(text(),'50% Off or more')]"));
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].click();", element);
My code:
WebDriver driver = new SafariDriver();
driver.get("http://bet.hkjc.com/football/default.aspx");
WebElement matchs = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span.Head to Head"));
System.out.println(matchs);
driver.quit();
How can I crawl Manchester Utd and Celta Vigo?
WebElement matchs = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[#title='Head to Head']"));
System.out.println(matchs.getText());
Use firebug and firepath addons in firefox and inspect that element and get the xpath and put it here inside double quotes in this code :
System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.xpath("")).getText());
If you don't know how to use firebug and firepath refer this link
You can locate the element either by css selector or xpath selector
By using xpath
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[#title='Head to Head']"));
By using css Selector
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span > a[title='Head to Head']"));
OR Try somethings like this if not getting the match
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("td.cteams.ttgR2>span>a[title='Head to Head']"));
Note : in your code you are trying like span.Head to Head in CSS selector . dot represents the class and according to your path you are locating span tag which have class name "Head to Head" which doesn't exist in your dom as this is the title of anchor tag.
Went through the Firebug and Firepath plugins of Firefox initially to get the Xpath or css path
Explore some blogs to get clear understanding, you will be able to create by yourself
Refer This link for the same
I assume all the above answers doesn't work for you and am providing another answer.
I can see both the texts are under "a" tag. So the idea is to navigate to the element and use getText() - which returns the visible text.
String word = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span/a")).getText();
System.out.println(word);
Hope this works for you.
In all of my tests I'm using the getAttribute like this to get text and it is working fine for me on all drivers :
assertEquals(strCity, txtCity.getAttribute("value"));
I have a login button and want to identify it using xpath and id. But both the xpath and id are dynamically changing. Please advise on how to do it.
The Xpath and ID keep changing as below for login button and i am not able to find any common element to find it:
Xpath : .//*[#id='uO4Qo']
ID : uO4Qo
Xpath : .//*[#id='tP5Qo']
ID : tP5Qo
Xpath : .//*[#id='vVBPn']
ID : vVBPn
If you're using Selenium IDE to create your script, the target field is a dropdown, displaying all the possible options to identify your specified button. If the options CSS, name or anything else are not available, it means that these things are not present on your page. Perhaps is xpath:position an option in your specific case.
Use below code, use login button text in place of LoginButtonText:
driver.findElement(By.LinkText("LoginButtonText")).click();