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Rudziankoŭ
Rudziankoŭ

Reputation: 11251

How to find button with WebDriver?

I need to click "Databases" button. I try this code:

driver.switchTo().frame("frame_content");
         wait.until(visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("topmenucontainer")));
         driver.findElement(By.linkText("server_databases.php?token=650c2ac770f7d54449d462b18ddd6a01"));

But even mention of current link don't help me, I have exception:

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"partial link text","selector":"server_databases.php?token=65...

What I am doing wrong? How I can do it with XPath ore somehow else? DB_button

Upvotes: 0

Views: 364

Answers (5)

Arpan Buch
Arpan Buch

Reputation: 1400

This will do it.

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(@href,'server_databases.php?token=')]"));

or

driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[2]/ul/li/a"));

Upvotes: 0

Amith
Amith

Reputation: 7008

As Richard has mentioned, you should mention the link text which is visible to the user ,i.e, link text which is displayed on the screen.I'm sure the above solutions worked but it is important to know why your code hasn't worked.

So replace,

driver.findElement(By.linkText("server_databases.php?token=650c2ac770f7d54449d462b18ddd6a01"));

with

driver.findElement(By.linkText("Databases"));

Upvotes: 0

Andrian Durlestean
Andrian Durlestean

Reputation: 1730

Try this:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(@href,'server_databases.php?token=')]"));

your token may be generated every time so let it find if contains partial of link.

Upvotes: 1

zarry
zarry

Reputation: 70

You appear to be using partial link text although that link does not appear to have any text. I think you want to use something like css selector and use the href attribute.

driver.findElementBy(By.cssSelector("[href*='server_databases.php?token=650c2ac770f7d54449d462b18ddd6a01']"))

Upvotes: 1

Richard
Richard

Reputation: 9019

Partial link text refers to the text between the <a ...></a> tags. You're trying to match link text on href, not the link text itself.

Upvotes: 0

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