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asma
asma

Reputation: 2825

IllegalLocatorException - Selenium Web Driver

Ok I am writing a simple code in Selenium Web Driver. What it does is:

  1. Open URL Google.com
  2. Enter 'abc' in search bar
  3. Click the Images tab

I am using windows 8 - 64 bit and Visual Studio 2013. Browser is Firefox.

Here is the code I wrote:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using OpenQA.Selenium.IE;

namespace WebDriverDemo
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
            driver.Url = "http://google.com";

            var searchBox = driver.FindElement(By.Id("gbqfq"));
            searchBox.SendKeys("abc");

            driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1));

            var images = driver.FindElements(By.ClassName("q qs"))[0];
            images.Click();

        }
    }
}

But I am getting an exception on the second last line of the code. Here is the exception:

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Here is the Inspect Element result:

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 638

Answers (3)

Saifur
Saifur

Reputation: 16201

And, the issue is compound class. Currently selenium does not support this. You can use the cssSelector on the other hand to avoid this issue.

.q.qs

Note . before each class and see my answer related to this question here

Complete code as per OP's update:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using OpenQA.Selenium.IE;

namespace WebDriverDemo
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
            driver.Url = "http://google.com";

            var searchBox = driver.FindElement(By.Id("gbqfq"));
            searchBox.SendKeys("abc");
            //The following line is missing that is mandatory.
            driver.FindElement(By.Name("btnG")).Click();

            driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1));

            var images = driver.FindElements(By.CssSelector(".q.qs"))[0];
            images.Click();

        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

Shoaib Mal
Shoaib Mal

Reputation: 89

Using CSSSelector:

 var images = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".q.qs"));
 images.Click();

Using LinkText :

 var images = driver.findElement(By.linkText("Images"));
 images.Click();

Using Xpath :

  var images = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@class='q qs' and .='Images']"));
  images.Click();

Upvotes: 0

JimEvans
JimEvans

Reputation: 27486

The exception message tells you exactly what the problem is. You cannot use multiple, or "compound," class names when using By.ClassName. A single class name cannot contain a space. If you want to use multiple class names, use By.CssSelector.

Upvotes: 3

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