How to press/click the button using Selenium if the button does not have the Id?

Question

I have 2 buttons Cancel and Next button on the same page but it has only one id (see the below code). I wanted to press Next but every time it is identifying the cancel button only not Next button. How to resolve this issue?

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     <input type="button" id="cancelButton" value="Cancel" title="cancel" class="Submit_Button" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 160);">
     <input type="submit" value="Next" title="next" class="Submit_Button">
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What are you using? Selenium RC or WebDriver (Selenium 2)? Which language are you using? Java? C#? Python? or what? — Ripon Al Wasim, Jan 16 '13 at 04:44

score 23 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 19 '16 at 16:53

Use xpath selector (here's quick tutorial) instead of id:

#python:
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox

YOUR_PAGE_URL = 'http://mypage.com/'
NEXT_BUTTON_XPATH = '//input[@type="submit" and @title="next"]'

browser = Firefox()
browser.get(YOUR_PAGE_URL)

button = browser.find_element_by_xpath(NEXT_BUTTON_XPATH)
button.click()

Or, if you use "vanilla" Selenium, just use same xpath selector instead of button id:

NEXT_BUTTON_XPATH = '//input[@type="submit" and @title="next"]'
selenium.click(NEXT_BUTTON_XPATH)

score 20 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 16 '12 at 13:15

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In Selenium IDE you can do:

Command   |   clickAndWait
Target    |   //input[@value='Next' and @title='next']

It should work fine.

answered Jan 16 '12 at 13:15

faramka

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score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 16 '14 at 05:44

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use the text and value attributes instead of the id

driver.findElementByXpath("//input[@value='cancel'][@title='cancel']").click();

similarly for Next.

answered Feb 16 '14 at 05:44

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 16 '13 at 04:52

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For Next button you can use xpath or cssSelector as below:

xpath for Next button: //input[@value='Next']

cssPath for Next button: input[value=Next]

answered Jan 16 '13 at 04:52

Ripon Al Wasim

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 16 '12 at 08:14

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You don't need to use only identifier as elements locators. You can use a few ways to find an element. Read this article and choose the best for you.

answered Jan 16 '12 at 08:14

faramka

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But after reading you should know what to do, when the element has not got an 'id' attribute. – faramka Jan 16 '12 at 13:20

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 01 '18 at 12:54

    You can achieve this by using cssSelector 
    // Use of List web elements:
    String cssSelectorOfLoginButton="input[type='button'][id='login']"; 
    //****Add cssSelector of your 1st webelement
    //List<WebElement> button 
    =driver.findElements(By.cssSelector(cssSelectorOfLoginButton));
    button.get(0).click();

    I hope this work for you

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 16 '12 at 11:33

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You can use xpath for for identifying that element.

answered Jan 16 '12 at 11:33

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