Button click not redirecting to next page in Selenium IDE

Question

I am using clickAndWait for xpath=//button[contains(.,'Next')] When I click Find on Selenium IDE the button is found, but the script doesn't click on the button. The button has id = pmc_wizard_next and class = btn btn-next.

The html for the button is:

<div id="pmc_wizard" class="wizard pmc-wizard">

    <ul class="steps pmc-wizard-steps"> … </ul>
    <div class="actions pmc-wizard-actions">
        <button id="pmc_wizard_prev" class="btn btn-prev"> … </button>
        <button id="pmc_wizard_next" class="btn btn-next" data-last="Submit">

            Next

            <i class="icon-arrow-right"></i>
        </button>
    </div>

</div>

When the button is clicked, it doesn't navigate to the next page, however it does perform all the actions on the next page.

What should I be doing?

Answer 1

There are some instances where selenium (watir) refuses to click a link or a button even when the xpath expression is valid and claims it found the object.

In these situations I just use a jquery .click function with the .executeScript method as a work around.