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vivekgoynar
vivekgoynar

Reputation: 31

Webdriver's click() method not working on a website

I am using WebDriver API to test a webpage and the click() method is not working on a particular webpage.

Neither it is showing any exception nor clicking on the webelement (a link in my case). I tried to find the element using xpath, id and link but the click did not work.

However, when I tried contextClick (i.e. right click) operation on the same link, it worked. Also when I print the text or tagName of the web-element, the text or tagName is displayed perfectly fine on the output screen.

My code:

WebDriver browser=new InternetExplorerDriver();
browser.get("some website");
WebElement linkkk=browser.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='topsort']/li[2]/a"));
linkkk.click();

web-page code:

<div class="content">
  <div class="blind" style="display: none;"></div>
    <ul id="topsort">
      <li>something</li>
      <li><a class="category_nav_remote_link selected" href="some website">some text</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</div>

I even used:

Actions action=new Actions(browser);<br/>
action.click(linkkk);
action.perform();

But in vain.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4768

Answers (2)

Surya
Surya

Reputation: 4536

Try below options:

WebElement linkkk=browser.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='topsort']/li[2]/a"));
linkkk.click();
//click once again
linkkk.click();

OR - Try by sending ENTER key as below:

linkkk.sendKeys(Keys.ENTER);

OR - First move to that link & then click or send ENTER key

Actions moveTo = new Actions(driver);
moveTo.moveToElement(linkkk).click().perform();

Upvotes: 7

SeleniumMaster
SeleniumMaster

Reputation: 11

Try using IJavaScriptExecutor to click on the button. It's been very successful on my app.

((IJavaScriptExecutor)_webDriver).ExecuteScript("$(arguments[0].click()",webElement);

Upvotes: 1

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