NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element error clicking on the Sign up button using Selenium and Java

Question

So I'm trying to test out the first name section of this link (https://softwaretestinggn8fe.herokuapp.com/) using selenium in java to show that the error message "First Name can only contain characters." will be shown when I type "545" into the first name section of the website. However my test fails and this is the error I get:

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"*[name='submit']"}
  (Session info: chrome=86.0.4240.198)

Does anyone know how to solve this issue?

    import org.testng.AssertJUnit;
    import org.openqa.selenium.By;
    import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
    import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
    import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
    import org.testng.Assert;
    import org.testng.annotations.Test;
    
    
    public class WebTesting {
        
        @Test
        public void test1() {
            
            System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/Users/mtecl/Desktop/Drivers/chromedriver.exe");    // configure path to the driver
            
            WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
            
            driver.get("https://softwaretestinggn8fe.herokuapp.com/");
            
            //Username
            WebElement testUsername = driver.findElement(By.id("firstname")); //id: first name
        
            testUsername.sendKeys("545");
            
            //Button
            driver.findElement(By.name("submit")).click();
            
            String expected = "First Name can only contain characters.";
            String actual = driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div/main/div[2]/form/div[1]/span")).getText();
            
            Assert.assertEquals(expected, actual);
        
        }
    }

there is no element with name submit. Just type submit. – DMart Dec 04 '20 at 02:12 — DMart, Dec 04 '20 at 02:12

undetected Selenium · Answer 1 · 2020-12-03T23:18:46.750

To click() on the element Sign up you need to induce WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

cssSelector:

driver.get("https://softwaretestinggn8fe.herokuapp.com/");
WebElement testUsername = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("input#firstname")));
testUsername.sendKeys("545");
testUsername.submit();
System.out.println(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("input#firstname +span"))).getText());

xpath:

driver.get("https://softwaretestinggn8fe.herokuapp.com/");
WebElement testUsername = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//input[@id='firstname']")));
testUsername.sendKeys("545");
testUsername.submit();
System.out.println(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//input[@id='firstname']//following-sibling::span[1]"))).getText());

Console Output:

First Name can only contain characters.

Browser Snapshot:

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