Selenium WebDriver Java cssSelector Span

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I am trying to click on a link using Selenium WebDriver in Java. My Java:

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span[data-seleniumid=\"Address0\"]")).click();

The HTML on my page looks like this:

<span data-seleniumid="Address0" class="ATAddressLine">1 The Road, Town, City, Postcode</span>

The error in Eclipse is:

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"span[data-seleniumid=\"Address0\"]"}

Thanks

What else have you tried other than just the one line of code? I would recommend you look at some CSS references and tutorials so that you can learn other ways to create selectors so you can try varying locator methods. — JeffC
– JeffC, Commented Jul 8, 2016 at 18:22

JeffC · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-08 18:18:46Z

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Instead of trying to escape the inner double quotes, just use a single quote instead.

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span[data-seleniumid='Address0']")).click();

edited Jul 8, 2016 at 18:18

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JeffC Over a year ago

Your original answer was too close to a code only answer which is not allowed. In the future, please just add a few comments on what your code does differently to solve the problem so that the OP and future readers can easily see and understand the difference.

JeffC · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-08 18:21:29Z

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I would try a different selector like "span.ATAddressLine". Not sure if webdriver likes your attribute "data-seleniumid".

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JeffC Over a year ago

Selenium doesn't like or dislike attributes. If done correctly, any attribute will work.

neonidian · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-09 14:21:25Z

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Have a webdriver wait condition like waiting for an element to be clickable and then use your above code.

answered Jul 9, 2016 at 14:21

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:32:39Z

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Thanks for you help all. The element wasn't being found because it was in an iframe popup and Selenium was searching for it in the page behind.

This post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32836709/6565982 helped.

For anyone in the future my code is now:

WebElement iFrame= driver.findElement(By.tagName("iframe"));
        driver.switchTo().frame(iFrame);

        // Select an address
        driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span[data-seleniumid=\"Address0\"]")).click();

        // Switch back to the default page
        driver.switchTo().defaultContent();

Thanks again.

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