How to locate the button using Selenium

Question

I tried to find this code

<div class="ads-form-bottom__submit">
    <button type="submit" class="ads-form-bottom__publish button button-orange" title="Enviar anúncio"> Enviar anúncio</button>
</div>

using the XPath

//div[class='ads-form-bottom__submit'][2]/button/following-sibling::div[1]

and

//div[@class='ads-form-bottom__submit']/following-sibling::button

but it doesn't work.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '19 at 21:35

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There doesn't appear to be a reason to use following-sibling::.

Try:

//div[contains(@class,'ads-form-bottom__submit')]/button[contains(@class,'ads-form-bottom__publish')]

answered Apr 10 '19 at 21:35

MivaScott

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 10 '19 at 21:50

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Migrating to $(By.id("") alleviates a lot of Xpath issues

answered Apr 10 '19 at 21:50

Pizazz93

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How does By.id help if there are no IDs in the html code? – MivaScott Apr 10 '19 at 22:49
it doesnt but it makes troubleshooting easier – Pizazz93 Apr 12 '19 at 16:45

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 11 '19 at 14:24

To locate the button with text as Enviar anúncio you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

div.ads-form-bottom__submit>button.ads-form-bottom__publish.button.button-orange[title='Enviar anúncio']

Using XPATH:

//div[@class='ads-form-bottom__submit']/button[@class='ads-form-bottom__publish button button-orange' and @title='Enviar anúncio']

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 11 '19 at 19:00

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your both xpaths are incorrect. first one is missing '@' and in second 'button' is not sibling, rather its a child.

use this

    //button[contains(text(), 'Enviar anúncio')]

answered Apr 11 '19 at 19:00

Rakesh Raut

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How to locate the button using Selenium

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