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Jay
Jay

Reputation: 2527

Selenium Button Click

Does a button need to be in a form inorder to perform click operation on it? I am using 

driver.findElement(By.tagName("button")).submit();

I also tried targeting that button with classname but I keep getting the below error.

Element was not in a form so couldn't submit Command duration or timeout: 0 milliseconds For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1183

Answers (2)

ddavison
ddavison

Reputation: 29082

Does a button need to be in a form inorder to perform click operation on it?

No. Nothing "Has" to be anywhere to operate on it as long as it's visible.

but I keep getting the below error

That's because you are trying to invoke submit() on that button. If it WERE in a form this would work, but since it is not, that is why you are getting that error.

I also tried targeting that button with classname

How you select it is irrelevant. You are most likely finding the right one unless there are more than 1 <button /> element. Some alternatives would be,

By.cssSelector('button[attr='attr']')
By.tagName('button') // this is assuming that it is the only button in the DOM.
By.className('someClass')

Do as @Richard had mentioned and invoke the click() method rather than the submit() method.

Upvotes: 2

Richard
Richard

Reputation: 9029

You should be able to use driver.findElement(By.tagName("button")).click()

Upvotes: 1

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