Selenium: Element Not Found for existing element

Question

So I have the following HTML Tag I want to fetch with Selenium:

<button data-v-48e2f75a="" class="app-button rose-button min-width">Sign in</button>

I am trying to fetch it like so:

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browser.findElement(By.cssSelector("app-button rose-button min-width")).click();

When I run this it always returns the following exception:

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: app-button rose-button min-width

This is one of the methods I've tried already however it has not worked either:

browser.findElement(By.cssSelector("app-button rose-button min-width")).click();

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 01 '20 at 10:32

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The css selector is wrong. Try it in this way:

browser.findElement(By.cssSelector(".app-button.rose-button.min-width")).click();

answered Jul 01 '20 at 10:32

Ledjon

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Abhinaba Chakraborty · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-30T18:45:13.113

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It should be By.className instead of cssSelector.

Example:

    WebElement parentElement = driver.findElement(By.className("rose-button"));

If you want to use cssSelector, it should look like:

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("button[class='app-button rose-button min-width']"));

Another way is using xpath:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='app-button rose-button min-width']"));

And as DebanjanB mentioned, you can add webdriverwait also, if there is some kind of loading delay.

edited Jun 30 '20 at 18:45

answered Jun 30 '20 at 18:39

Abhinaba Chakraborty

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I can't believe I made such a mistake haha, always the small things that trip me up. – Aasil Jul 01 '20 at 16:25

undetected Selenium · Answer 3 · 2020-06-30T18:44:50.503

To click on the element with text as Sign in you have to induce WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using cssSelector:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("button.app-button.rose-button.min-width"))).click();

Using xpath:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//button[@class='app-button rose-button min-width' and text()='Sign in']"))).click();

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