Unable to click button using Selenium Webdriver Java

Question

I am trying to click a button through webdriver. After inspecting the button element it highlights to the following:

XPath:

/html/body/div/div/main/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/table/tbody/tr/td[4]/form/button

This is my code:

WebDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver(); driver.get("Website link");
driver.findElement(By.id("email")).sendKeys("xyz"); 
driver.findElement(By.id("password")).sendKeys("xyz"); 
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[text()='Log in']")).click(); 
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[text()='CANCEL']")).click();

But, when I try to run the code, it doesn't click the button. Can anyone help me solve this? Would be a great help

Answer 1

Try this below Xpath

//button[contains(text(),'CANCEL')]

Answer 2

@Harpeet - Try this

//button[@class='btn btn-outline-primary bold']

if not works then try this.

//button[contains(text(),'CANCEL')]

Answer 3

Try the below xpath,

//button[text()='CANCEL']

Answer 4

or you can use CSS selector

button.btn.btn-outline-primary.bold

Answer 5

For software testing services company while automating the application we avoid the usage of the Xpaths. We give preferences to the Classname>=Id>=Linktext>=Css and then last preference is given to the Xpath. Please try the code below.

public void clickCancelBtn() {    
webElement = driver.findElement(By.cssselector("button.btn.btn-outline-primary.bold"));
webElement.click(); 
}

Also, Form seems to be written using jquery. We have to look into the other solution if it not working at your end. Please do share your code snippet or error that it throws if it is not working at your end.

Answer 6

You can check whether there is a existence of a web element that obscures the web element that we want to click such as Frame.

Else you can add a wait type such as explicit or fluent wait before clicking the element. May be you are trying to click the element which is still not loaded in the UI.

Answer 7

Try using Explicit Wait in your code. Using the Explicit Wait command, the WebDriver is directed to wait until a specific condition occurs before executing the code.

WebDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver(); driver.get("Website link");
driver.findElement(By.id("email")).sendKeys("xyz"); 
driver.findElement(By.id("password")).sendKeys("xyz"); 
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[text()='Log in']")).click(); 
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,30);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//button[text()='CANCEL']")));
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[text()='CANCEL']")).click();

For more please refer article - https://www.browserstack.com/guide/wait-commands-in-selenium-webdriver#:~:text=Selenium%20for%20Free-,Explicit%20Wait%20in%20Selenium,-By%20using%20the