CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javaseleniumwebdriver
ck1711
ck1711

Reputation: 7

WebDriver - Unable to locate element

I am testing a website where I have to submit the form. I entered the username, password. Clicked Submit. But even though the form is submitted, I getting the following error message for submit:

Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler$UnknownServerException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"name","selector":"submit"}

code: driver.findElement(By.name("submit"));

I wanted to know why this error occurs.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 940

Answers (1)

ddavison
ddavison

Reputation: 29062

I wanted to know why this error occurs.

The error is occurring because there is no element on the page with the name attribute with the value submit.

My educated guess, is that you are trying to find the submit button, and getting confused with the By.name

By.name will, as @Subh stated, find an element by the name. e.g: <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />

Give this a try:

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("[type='submit']")
// careful though, if there are more than one of these, then you need to increase the specificity

Upvotes: 1

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