Unable to click on button

Question

For this line,

driver.findElement(By.name("importbutton")).click();

It is throwing exception:

Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with Command duration or timeout: 20.08 seconds.

The following is the html code for above,

<div class="text-center msg">
<button class="btn-w center-block btn btn-default reveal" ng-click="gplus_login()" type="button" name="importbutton">Import Gmail Contacts</button>
</div>

Can any one help me?

Answer 1

Include an implicit or explicit (favorably, the later), before this click statement.

This is an example of how you use Explicit wait :

WebdriverWait wait1= new WebDriverWait(driver,30);
WebElement ele= wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityof(elementtobechecked);

then include your click statement

driver. findElement(By.name("importbutton")).click();

If you want to use implicit wait (which I wouldn't recommend), then you can use :

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(50, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

You can use the Selenium documentation to refer more.

Here is a good example.

Answer 2

 //driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(50, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    Thread.sleep(2000);
    if(driver.findElement(By.name("importbutton")).isDisplayed())
    system.out.Println("test passed");
    driver.findElement(By.name("importbutton")).click();
    Else
    system.out.Println("test Fail")

Try this you might get Successs