This one is bugging me. The same xpath is waited for and found. Then i attempt to click it and get an error. Code as below
Wait Until Element Is visible xpath=//*[#id="content"]/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/h3/a/i[1]
Click Link xpath=//*[#id="content"]/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/h3/a/i[1]
Error here
ValueError: Element locator 'xpath=//*[#id="content"]/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/h3/a/i[1]' did not match any elements.
I know for sure by going in manually that the xpath is there. Something funny about the way Robot does this perhaps?
Click link will actually look for a link attribute (a=) but your locator is not an 'a' attribute.
Try 'Click Element' instead of 'Click Link'
I am having below error message in my console while trying to click on a button element:
unknown error: Element is not clickable at point (62, 459).
Other element would receive the click: <i class="foo foo-chase-lemon font-size-13"></i>
Here's my code below:
#object = Page.new
#object.wait_until_btn_element_visible
#object.btn_element.click
I have tried with retry 5 times to click on it using rescue but didn't help.
Below code also didn't work where i tried to move to that element before click.
Capybara.page.driver.move_to.(#object.btn_element).perform
Any solution will be greatly appreciated.
I tried increasing the resolution/ scrolling the window. None of them worked on this specific scenario. These solution might work for others.
However, I resolved the issue by clicking the button using javascript "execute_script" method in my automation script.
I am trying to automate actions and unable to select an element due to its dynamic nature.
I am running Selenium web driver on ruby and am trying to select value that is not present in page source.
<a class="linkOtherBrowser" onclick="addChangeStatusField('InitialSelectionPage');submitFormByAction('ChangeStep');return false;" href="#"><div class="processBarElement noSelected">
<div class="whiteBeforeProcessBarTitles"></div>Initial Selection</div>
<div class="endOfElementOfProcessBar"></div></a>
I am trying to select value "Initial Selection" from above.
Could anyone pls help out?
Thanks,
Abhishek
As the HTML is generated by Javascript, You need to inspect the DOM instead of viewsource and write the element locator code accordingly.
Note: In IE, Firefox or Chrome you can press F12 key to see the developer tools and use the inspect element option to check the DOM.
Whatever element is generated dynamically is added in your DOM. WebDriver has capability of clicking on elements are the visible on UI and hence if the generated element is visible to regular user's you can click on the element easily.
To do so, you need to identify the best selector for that newly generated click, could be xpath or css. Once you identify the selector you can consider clicking clicking using following code
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[#title='NAME_TITLE']"));
element.click();
OR
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.css("a[title='NAME_TITLE']"));
element.click();
There are more options within your By.class on picking the element in best way
EDIT:
I have cleaned this up a bit.
I have a button that looks like this:
<input id="applyRuleButton" class="Button" name="filtersContainer:applyRuleButton"
value="Apply" onclick="wicketShow('applyRuleButton--ajax-indicator');var
wcall=wicketSubmitFormById('id256', '?wicket:interface=:23:form:filtersContainer:applyRuleButton:
:IActivePageBehaviorListener:0:&wicket:ignoreIfNotActive=true',
'filtersContainer:applyRuleButton' ,function() { ;wicketHide('applyRuleButton--
ajax-indicator');}.bind(this),function() { ;wicketHide('applyRuleButton--
ajax-indicator');}.bind(this), function() {return
Wicket.$$(this)&&Wicket.$$('id256')}.bind(this));;; return false;" type="submit">
Firebug:
<input id="applyRuleButton" class="Button" type="submit"
onclick="wicketShow('applyRuleButton--ajax-indicator');var
wcall=wicketSubmitFormById('id2ee',
'?wicket:interface=:29:form:filtersContainer:applyRuleButton::IActivePageBehaviorListener:0
:&wicket:ignoreIfNotActive=true', 'filtersContainer:applyRuleButton' ,function() {
;wicketHide('applyRuleButton--ajax-indicator');}.bind(this),function() {
;wicketHide('applyRuleButton--ajax-indicator');}.bind(this), function() {return
Wicket.$$(this)&&Wicket.$$('id2ee')}.bind(this));;; return false;" value="Apply"
name="filtersContainer:applyRuleButton">
I'm trying to click it and have tried pretty much everything for 2 days, webdriver does not find the element, IDE does find it:
//This was my first approach, it should work.
It works in IDE, but not Webdriver:
driver.findElement(By.id("applyRuleButton")).click();
//then perhaps this should do the trick, hint: It doesn't:
WebElement element3 = driver.findElement(By.id("applyRuleButton"));
JavascriptExecutor executor3 = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor3.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element3);
Ok, Id not working, I get it.
Then this should work at least:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//table/tbody/tr/td/div/div/table/tbody/tr[6]/td/input[#id='applyRuleButton']")).click();
It feels like I am missing something obvious here, some help please?
Additional information:
I have added a 5 second wait, the page is completely loaded.
This button is located in a table:
The Xpath is
/html/body/div[4]/div[2]/form/div[3]/div/div/table/tbody/tr/td/div/div/table/tbody/tr[6]/td/input
Webdriver error, no matter what I throw at it, is: Unable to locate element
I have used both 'click' and 'submit', still no success.
I think in this case there are two possibilities :
Either there is another element having same id/xpath.
OR Element present in another iframe.
Is the button visible. Selenium click (latest firefox 26 and latest webdriver 2.39.0) does not sometimes implicitly scroll; Or it may not scroll it fully. So scroll it into view - Scroll Element into View with Selenium and then it should work.
Note Selenium Best Practise try to use By.Id,By.CSSSelector and if nothing gets use By.Xpath in the order of priority. ( Use the FireFinder, FireBug plugin to test XPath or CSS)
This might be a synchronization issue. Such issues can be solved using smart waits.
new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)).Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists((By.Id("applyRuleButton"))));
WebElement element3 = driver.findElement(By.id("applyRuleButton"));
And that should work perfectly fine.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with your selector. I just don't think you're invoking the click correctly.
Try:
driver.findElement(By.id("applyRuleButton")).click();
If this doesn't work, then you might have to invoke a WebDriverWait since you have this question marked as [ajax]
Could you post the entire html?
As a simple experiment, I took the html snippet that you posted and wrote a short python script that invokes selenium:
from selenium import webdriver
br = webdriver.Firefox()
br.get("put your path to snippet here")
button = br.find_element_by_id("applyRuleButton")
print button.get_attribute("name")
button.click()
br.close()
I can find the button and extract the attribute "name" which prints "filtersContainer:applyRuleButton". This is admittedly a very limited experiment, but it suggests that the issue is related to not being where you think you are on the page.
Try this:
driver.findElement(By.Name("filtersContainer:applyRuleButton"));
If this doesn't help, check whether this button is located in any other frame. If so, you may have to find and move your focus to that frame and then locate this button.
First try to identify the button by writting correct xpath using firebug, if you are able to identify button by that xpath then use that xpath while writing your script.
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[# type='submit' and # id='applyRuleButton'")).click();
This is ajax application use proper explicit/ webdriver wait till the button gets downloaded
I see that this thread is old, but I was looking at it today (Sept/2021) as I was having the same problem: I could see the name / id/ type of the button, but it would never be found.
I discovered that when I had clicked in a prior link, it opened a new tab in my browser, but Selenium did not change the focus to the new tab, so it couldn't find the ID of the button I was looking for.
I solved it with :
driver.find_element_by_id("export").click() #driver
time.sleep(2)
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[1]) # Change focus to the new tab
driver.find_element_by_id("0001btn").click() #click
driver.close() #close new tab
switching to a specific frame helped me to resolve the same issue. (python + selenium)
I installed the Selenium Recorder extension on chrome and recorded my steps, and found out that the recorder had a step to select a frame = 0, so adding
self.home_page.driver.switch_to.frame(0)
self.home_page.click_on_element_by_id("clickSubmit")
solved the problem.
I would like to use WebDriver (Firefox) to test my webpage, but I always get this message:
Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//li[#id='something_spicy']"}
But, the really strange thing is that if I copy the element locator "//li[#id='something_spicy']" and paste it into Firefinder then it works. Basically, I ran out of thoughts about what could be the root cause.
I use C# and here is the code:
movedElement = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//li[#id='" + originalOrderOfSportContainers[1] + "']"));
Did I do something wrong? Have I missed something?
provide a snippet of the html code of your page.
There is a chance that element is not there immediately after the page is loaded,
but appears a bit later as a result of some javascript function execution.
If this is the case, use explicit wait to wait for element to appear before using it.