Javascript with Selenium WebDriver: "Can't find variable: $"

Question

I aimed to use Selenium Webdriver to click a button in a web page. I did it successfully on Chrome Developer Tools but I got "can't find variable" error while I was execute Javascript code:

IJavaScriptExecutor js = driver as IJavaScriptExecutor;
js.ExecuteScript("$('.XbuttonName').click();");

I thought it is related with permissions because I also click the button in a healthy way with WebDriver as follows:

var button = driver.FindElement(By.ClassName("XclassName"));
button.Click();

Are there any different options to execute scripts with Selenium Driver?

You are executing HTML and not Javascript code. Please read up on the JSE and how it works. — JeffC, Nov 12 '16 at 02:19

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '16 at 22:08

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Actually, the element is independent from the page itself.

I use with java, can you try something like this ?

var button = driver.FindElement(By.ClassName("XclassName"));
jsE.ExecuteScript('arguments[0].click();',button);

answered Nov 11 '16 at 22:08

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will button variable come instead of "0" in arguments? If you meant that it didn't work. – tdog Nov 11 '16 at 22:13

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:41

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It sounds like you haven't imported JQuery, which uses the '$' variable. See this question.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:41

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answered Nov 11 '16 at 21:55

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I updated my original script. – tdog Nov 11 '16 at 22:09

Javascript with Selenium WebDriver: "Can't find variable: $"

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