Click a button using selenium

Question

public class ButtonClick {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Users\\Downloads\\chromedriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("https://www.edureka.co/");
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@href='https://www.edureka.co/selenium-certification-training']")).click();
    }
}

I am getting an error saying that element not found.
 

Answer 1

Your code works fine here, the only possibility of you getting this error would be if you are searching for the element that is not yet displayed. Try adding a wait before searching for the element. Hope this will work.

public class ButtonClick {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException
    {
       System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Users\\priyj_kumar\\Downloads\\chromedriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("https://www.edureka.co/");
        Thread.sleep(5000);
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@href='https://www.edureka.co/selenium-certification-training']")).click();
    }
}

Comments

@priyaj, But thread.sleep() is not a wait statement right? Which one should be used?