Selenium, cannot find button to click

Question

I got stuck to write the code in WebDriver. I have the code below :

<button class="btn" onclick="javascript:return PopulateInvestor('hdnInvestorId', 'txtInvestorName', 'txtInvestorEmail', '', '', '', '', '',false,'hdnInvestorName','hdnInvestorEmail');">Select</button>

For this I wrote the following:

JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;        
jse.executeScript("document.getElement(By.xpath(\"//div[@class='modal-footer']/button[@onclick'return javascript:return PopulateInvestor('hdnInvestorId', 'txtInvestorName', 'txtInvestorEmail', '', '', '', '', '',false,'hdnInvestorName','hdnInvestorEmail');']\").click()");

But still it could not identify element and could not click the button. I can see there is select button present at the end of the code but don't know how to use it. Please advise for this.

Answer 1

This should work:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@class='btn' and contains(@onclick,'PopulateInvestor')]"));
element.click();

The driver search for the element on this way

• element has attribute class and the value of this is btn
• element has attribute onclick and the value of this contains the string PopulateInvestor

Maybe the first point is not necessary to identify the element, but I do not know the whole HTML code.

Answer 2

Try this line of code:

Driver.findElement(By.xpath("enter your xpath")).click();

Hope it works out!