Trouble Clicking Buttons with Selenium and Java

Question

I am trying to press the find jobs button on the home page of indeed using selenium. I have used By.id, By.xpath and By.className but it is still not working. There are a lot of similar questions to the one I am asking but I already tried them and they aren't different from what I have already done. I am using the Opera browser (don't want to use others) if that matters and the version is 3.4.0.

There is no error shown after execution.

Again the question is how do I click the button using selenium and java on an opera browser?

Appreciate the help.

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.opera.OperaDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.opera.OperaOptions;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
public class SeleniumLearning 
{
    WebDriver driverC;  
    WebDriver driverO;

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException
{
    SeleniumLearning SL = new SeleniumLearning();
    //SL.invokeOperaBrowser();
    SL.indeedOpera();
    //SL.yahooOpera();
    //SL.duckduckgoOpera();
}
public void indeedOpera() throws InterruptedException
{
    System.setProperty("webdriver.opera.driver", "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Selenium Stuff\\operadriver_win64\\operadriver.exe");
    driverO = new OperaDriver();
    //driverO.manage().deleteAllCookies();
    driverO.manage().window().maximize();
    driverO.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    driverO.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

    driverO.get("http://www.indeed.com");
    driverO.findElement(By.className("input_text")).sendKeys("HR");

    //Trying different methods
    //These don't work individually either
    Thread.sleep(3000);
    driverO.findElement(By.id("fj")).click();
    Thread.sleep(3000);
    driverO.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='fj']")).click();
    Thread.sleep(3000);
    driverO.findElement(By.className("inwrapBorderTop")).click();
}
}

have you used javascript click? did you try to click on parent element or child element and see what happens ? — Gaurang Shah
– Gaurang Shah, Commented May 5, 2017 at 12:07
And yet you are saying that you searched to forum for similar questions. please search again. — Gaurang Shah
– Gaurang Shah, Commented May 5, 2017 at 12:47
For Kushal: There is no error it simply doesn't click the button. It executes this driverO.findElement(By.className("input_text")).sendKeys("HR"); perfectly. Then I think it executes it but website doesn't recognize it? (Not sure how selenium works behind the scenes.) — user3144079
– user3144079, Commented May 5, 2017 at 14:31

Abhinav Srivastava · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-06 22:23:26Z

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Try JS code to click the element as below: driver.get("http://www.indeed.com"); driver.findElement(By.className("input_text")).sendKeys("HR");

Thread.sleep(1000);

WebElement buttontoclick=driver.findElement(By.id("fj"));

((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click();", buttontoclick);

answered May 6, 2017 at 22:23

Abhinav Srivastava

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Bill Hileman · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-05 18:49:58Z

When I looked at the site directly, I manually performed the test first. I entered "hr" and then clicked the button. At that time, the button was accessible via XPath //*[@id="fj"]

I then tried to go back a second time to see if the locator for the button only became enabled if there was search text, and I immediately noticed that the screen layout no longer looks the same. I imagine if I cleared my cookies it would but I also noticed that upon second try, it already had my previous text in the textbox, but the locator for the button was not shown, only the division with XPath //*[@id="jobsearchform"]/div[5]/input

I don't know if this second locator will work with the first-time load of the web page or not, but it's likely it should work in either case.

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