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Sushant Tavrawala
Sushant Tavrawala

Reputation: 55

This XPath expression is not working with Selenium WebDriver

I am using Google Chrome as webdriver.

The Sign Up button code is:

<button type="submit" class="signupbtn btn_full btn btn-action btn-block btn-lg">
    <span class="ink animate" style="height: 488px; width: 488px; top: -215px; left: -118px;"></span>
    <i class="fa fa-check-square-o"></i>
    Sign Up
</button>

The error code is:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Element is not clickable at point (681, 658)

My XPath code for execution is:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*@id='headersignupform']/div[9]/button")).click();

However, it is not executing the script and is throwing the above error. As you can see, in the console it is locating the button with my code in the console.

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 3822

Answers (3)

Aarya Hareendranath
Aarya Hareendranath

Reputation: 370

You could use an action class for the same:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='headersignupform']/div[9]/button"));
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(element).click().perform();

The second thing is it's always advisable to use an exact tag instead of *[@id =""].

Upvotes: 0

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193088

It seems the Sign Up button has an overlay. So to interact directly with the Sign Up button, we need to use the help of JavascriptExecutor as follows:

WebElement button = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@class='signupbtn btn_full btn btn-action btn-block btn-lg']"));
JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
jse.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", button);

Upvotes: 2

Shubham Jain
Shubham Jain

Reputation: 17553

You need to use focus or scroll to that element. You also might have to use an explicit wait.

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*@id='headersignupform']/div[9]/button"));
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(element);
actions.perform();

If it still does not work, use JavascriptExecutor:

JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);

Upvotes: 2

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