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MadTester
MadTester

Reputation: 11

Selenium-Webdriver unable to find element in webpage after a page load using C#

I am trying to automate an web application using Selenium Webdriver and C#. Currently I am stuck with a simple issue. After navigating to a particular page, I am trying to click a link which has a link text of "Manage groups". However when I am executing the test it is failing to find the element in the web page.

driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Manage groups"));

I also tried using absolute Xpath:

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/article/li[2]/a"));

In both the cases the test navigates to the page then fails with error:

unable to find the element

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1426

Answers (2)

Інна Артюшенко
Інна Артюшенко

Reputation: 9

The issue may be caused by a small mistake in 'Manage groups' text (e.g. there may be an addition whitespace).

  1. Can you please provide at least little part of html (you can get it by right-click on your 'Manage groups' link and selecting 'Inspect Element' option )

  2. if not - try these ones:

By.XPath("//a[@contains(., 'Manage groups')]")

By.XPath("//a[@contains(., 'manage groups')]")

By.XPath("//a[@value='Manage groups')]")

By.partialLinkText("Manage groups")

Upvotes: 1

Pfeiff86
Pfeiff86

Reputation: 142

It should work with that :)

IWebElement ClickNext = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[.='Manage groups']"));
// We get the link to click on
ClickNext.Click();

Edit : Try that li instead of a

IWebElement ClickNext = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//li[.='Manage groups']"));
// We get the link to click on
ClickNext.Click();

Upvotes: 0

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