click on submit button not working in selenium webdriver

Question

I trying to click on the create account button in registration form. this is how the button locate in the html page:

<div id="submitContainer"><button type="submit" class="large"><span><strong> Create Account </strong></span></button></div>

this is the button xpath:

//*[@id="submitContainer"]/button/span/strong

the problem is that the button don't have id, he locate inside a div. I try to use by id,xpath,css,name, but all of this not working:

driver.findElement(By.id("submitContainer")).click();

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='submitContainer']/button/span/strong")).click();

driver.findElement(By.tagName("Create Account")).click();

driver.findElement(By.className("large")).click();

thanks!

this is how the button locate in the html page: <div id="submitContainer"> <button type="submit" class="large"> <span> <strong> Create Account </strong> </span> </button> </div> — gool
– gool, Commented Aug 29, 2015 at 9:02

Kim Schiller · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-29 18:13:28Z

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In your examples, except for the last one, you are not targeting the button. Now your last example, should actually locate the button-element:

driver.findElement(By.className("large")).click();

Could you please post the error message you are getting?

Are there more than one element on the page with className "large"?

answered Aug 29, 2015 at 18:13

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JeffC Over a year ago

I would use a CSS selector to target specifically the button with class large. driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("button.large")).click();

giri-sh · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-07 07:03:35Z

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Make sure the button is in view window, if it is then try clicking on it. Try to wait for the element to load. There might be an issue with your element being loaded into DOM -

driver.wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//button[@type='submit']"))).click();

Hope this helps.

edited Sep 7, 2015 at 7:03

answered Aug 29, 2015 at 9:43

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JeffC Over a year ago

...or you could just click the button and if it's not enabled or displayed you will get an error anyway without all the extra code checks...

giri-sh Over a year ago

Right @JeffC. I have updated answer with wait() function. I should have thought that before. Thanks :)

JeffC Over a year ago

The wait.until() will return the element you waited for... just store it and .click() it. No need to search for it again.

Homewrecker · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-31 05:15:42Z

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If you want to use xpath, the correct syntax is //button[@type='submit']

answered Aug 31, 2015 at 5:15

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Yannis · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-15 11:44:27Z

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Use this line below:

Thread.sleep(3000);

I got the result once I used this one. Since some time we need to give some sleep time for the site to load fully to pull the Xpath.

edited May 15, 2018 at 11:44

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answered May 15, 2018 at 10:45

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sɐunıɔןɐqɐp Over a year ago

I see this as a workaround, not a final solution... there must be a better way than a hard-coded Thread.Sleep...

Ponsukumar lingam Over a year ago

You can share if you have any better ways than this to make the code more effective

Shasak Singh Sengar · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-04 12:28:52Z

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You can use the linkText

driver.findElement(By.linkText("Create Account")).click();

Hope it will work for you.

answered Sep 4, 2015 at 12:28

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JeffC Over a year ago

This won't work because it's not a link, it's a button.

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