Unable to find an element (Selenium, Java)

Question

I am trying to the following element:

<span data-dojo-attach-point="lN" role="btn" aria-selected="false" class="xTreeNLbl">Find</span>

The following is the Java code:

private WebElement search_btn = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@data-dojo-attach-point='lN' and contains(text(),'Find')"));
search_btn.click();

It's unable to find the element. Please help. Thanks.

My guess is that `data-dojo-attach-point="lN"` is changing on each refresh. Can you confirm? — JeffC, Oct 30 '18 at 15:00

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 30 '18 at 05:45

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you are wrong at the xpath //div
as this is <span> tag not <div> tag you should write like this,

driver.findElement(By.xpath("*//span[text()='Find']")).click();

answered Oct 30 '18 at 05:45

Ashish Kamble

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 30 '18 at 07:18

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Your xpath is almost correct, you just need to correct tag name with Span

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@data-dojo-attach-point='lN' and contains(text(),'Find')"));

answered Oct 30 '18 at 07:18

Ishita Shah

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 30 '18 at 05:47

One option may be to try and find the element using one of it's attribute, like its class if it's unique. Taken from this previous question (Find element by attribute), the formula is:

element[attribute='attribute-value']

So if you have,

<a href="mysite.com"></a>

You can find it using:

By.cssSelector("a[href='mysite.com']");

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 30 '18 at 05:54

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Please try with the follow code:
//span[@role='btn' and @class='xTreeNLbl']

If this code does not solve your error, pass me the html dom code of the page and I will help.

answered Oct 30 '18 at 05:54

Cristian Mira

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Unable to find an element (Selenium, Java)

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