I'm having trouble trying to click on on a button within a form.
I've tried xpath, cssselector, className, id, but still cannot find it.
Here's the HTML snippet for the button:
<input type="button" value="Continue" id="ni-reg-btn-register" class="btnNext ni-reg-btn-register">
I'm using WebDriver in Java
Getting this trace:
org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with
Command duration or timeout: 30.09 seconds
Frequency: 100%
Browser: Firefox
URL: https://subscription.thetimes.co.uk/webjourney/webj_capturecustomerdetails
I've tried each of the following lines of code one by one (but no luck):
driver.findElement(By.className("btnNext ni-reg-btn-register")).click();
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("buttons#ni-reg-btn-register.btnNext ni-reg-btn-register")).click();
List<WebElement> buttonlist= driver.findElements(By.className("btnNext ni-reg-btn-register"));
driver.findElement(By.id("ni-reg-btn-register")).click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id="ni-reg-btn-register"]")).click();
I was able to click the Continue Button using the below xpath.
//input[#id='ni-reg-btn-register']
I would suggest trying a WebDriverWait call to wait for the element in question to exist on the page prior to interacting with it. The Java documentation can be found here. It appears that while you are using the correct locator and your page is working, there is a timing issue where Selenium is trying to access the element prior to it being loaded.
EDIT: I was unable to locate an element on the provided page with the supplied id. I assume I am missing a step, but I did a search on the HTML for that page and found nothing.
I dont find the above button on the page link you provided ..
better chk the page link and try to give some wait statement after page load ...
implicit wait would be better or simpli Thread.sleep(2000);
Related
When I tried to automate Linkedin with related to automation study research, I found that the drop down clicks are not working.
The code was:
Select dropdown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath(properties.getProperty("VAR_LANUAGEDROPDOWN"))));
dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Português (Portuguese)");
Thread.sleep(4000);
The console is displaying:
no such element: Unable to locate element:
{"method":"name","selector":"selectLanguage"} (Session info:
chrome=63.0.3239.132)
Can any one help me to find what the error is and how can I resolve it?
It seems, that selector of the Dropdown is incorrect. Selenium can't find it. Try to define a correct selector.
If selector is correct, than you need to wait, till this element appears in DOM.
i am trying to Automate flipkart website in which i am trying to change address but "add new adress" is not getting clicked i have attached the snapshot
my code is like driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='ng-app']/div/div[2]/ul/li[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/a/span")).click();
please give the appropriate help
I doesn't look that you are clicking active element, the xpath is //*[#id='ng-app']/div/div[2]/ul/li[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/a/span not correct it clicks on some span.
Use Firepath https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firepath/ to get the xpath.
To ensure that button is clickable Use isDisplayed() and isEnabled() method before clicking on "Add New Address" button, this method return boolean value.
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='ng-app']/div/div[2]/ul/li[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/a/span")).isDisplayed();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='ng-app']/div/div[2]/ul/li[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/a/span")).isEnabled();
Also you can verify that element is exist on page or not using below code
if(driver.findElements(byVal).size()!=0){
// Element is present.
}
hope it may helpful to identify cause of issue, why its not clickable.
First and foremost, Use a customized Xpath instead of the one you are using which is extracted directly from the browser. If no customized Xpath can be constructed then try a customized Css or any other locator if possible.
Try to go through the following attempts in order (I hope you can grasp why this is):
1- If .click() still doesn’t work, then keep on changing the values of the attributes you are using to construct your customized xpath, cssSelector, or locator.
2- Use the Actions class.
3- Use JavaScript executioner
4- instead of click(), try using any of: .sendKeys(“\n”). Or .sendKeys(keys.ENTER) or .sendKeys(keys.RETURN)
I am trying to automate 'Tableau' login screen and download reports flow. Everything works fine till I reach the 'Download' button. The first problem is I am NOT able to right click on the Download button and do an 'Inspect' in Chrome which is weird. I somehow am able to find the xpath by going through the whole page. When i try to click it I get "Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[3]/div[4]/span[1]"}".
The code that I am using is mentioned below:
String xPath = "/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[3]/div[4]/span[1]";
(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20))
.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath(xPath)));
driver.findElement(By.xpath(xPath)).click();
The page layout is like this from where I am picking the xpath
<div class="tabToolbarButton tab-widget" style="-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; width: 77.4px;">
<span class="tabToolbarButtonImg tab-icon-download"></span>
<span class="tabToolbarButtonText">Download</span></div>
<span class="tabToolbarButtonImg tab-icon-download"></span>
<span class="tabToolbarButtonText">Download</span>
</div>
Any help would be appreciated. What could be the reason for not able to 'Inspect'??
If you are not able to right click on the element, you can still right click anywhere on the page and select Inspect this element. You can then grab little binocular icon(tool tip message-select an element in the page to inspect it) and point it to the desired web element to check the xpath.
1st thing you need to check if you are writing xpath correctly. On a chrome you can do that without any plugin. On the developer window(same window which gets open when you select Inspect Element option), look for Console window and write your xpath as mentioned below and hit Enter.
$x("Write x path here")
for e.g. xpath for google search box
$x("//input[#id='lst-ib']")
I'm not sure why you writing absolute xpath. Its a bad practice. You can write x path for Download button in better way.
e.g.
(//span[#class='tabToolbarButtonText'])
I got the problem. So it seems the web page I was trying to automate has used frames. That is why even after providing the xpath the element was not getting clicked. I had to use 'switchTo.frame' in order to get the frame in focus and then I was able to click the element. Thanks for all the responses.
What I have still not understood is that why I was not able to inspect the element directly but that is a different question.
I had a problem with the web driver while page get refresh
scenario:
click on the 1st button and the page got refresh. Once the page refresh, then the driver cant able to find the position of the second button. the second button is save function so that I cant able to save that page.
The error which I got while running :
unknown error: Element is not clickable at point (257, 898).
Other element would receive the click:
<div id="divModel" class="dialog" style="display: block; height: 2037px; width: 1450px;">...</div>
1) is there any solution to refresh the variables on the page without refreshing the whole page?
2) is there any solution to find out the next button position after clicking the first one on that page?
First of all, as we do not have any clear idea what happens with you. First thing checks that is your Xpath is changing after refreshing the page. another thing is may be your page need some wait.
Try below code:-
WebElement element= driver.findElement(By.xpath("YOUR XPATH OR ANY LOCATOR"));
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated((By) element));
JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);
At last if nothing work then try to use Thread.sleep(5000); .
It's not a good practice even it is not recommended to use Thread.sleep but you can at least try once to ensure that the problem is related to wait only
It's not a solution, it's workaround: if you use Chrome driver then use FF/IE driver instead. I encountered similar problem with Chrome driver not so long ago, turned out to be Chrome driver bug.
Also, if you use PO model, you can use #CacheLookup annotation:
#CacheLookup
#FindBy(id = "your_id")
private WebElement saveButton;
Marker annotation to be applied to WebElements to indicate that it
never changes (that is, that the same instance in the DOM will always
be used)
I am trying to upload a file through selenium webDriver but selenium gives an error:Unable to locate element. I have used all method to find element and click on browse but not any click occurring on that.
The HTML is <input type="file" onmousedown="this.blur();" onclick="//this.blur();" onchange="$('file-loader').show(); this.form.submit();" name="metadata_item" id="metadata_item">
First check the input element is visible
Then, you don't have to click on the browse button, it will trigger an OS level dialogue box and effectively stop your test dead.
In order to deal with this follow this code:
driver.findElement(By.id("myElementId")).sendKeys("<pathToFile>");
myElementId is the id of that element (button in this case) and in sendKeys you have to specify the absolute path of the content you want to upload. The Webdriver will do the rest for you.
Keep in mind that the upload will work only If the element you send a file should be in the form
cant answer without HTML code.
in order to click Browse button place the pointer in previous field i.e,
email address field and use
Robot robot=new Robot();
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_TAB);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_TAB);
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
and then a system popup displays then use AutoIT tool to handle it
It could be under another frame.
Try switching to that frame and click the element.
It would work.
For Example - If the browse button is under another frame which has Id = "frameUpload", then switch the webdriver to that frame like this:
driver.switchTo().frame("frameUpload");
Now click on the browse button like this:
driver.findElement(By.Id("Id of the button")).click();
once you are done with the click, you can always get back to the default window like this
driver.switchTo().DefaultContent();