Selenium click on dynamic id'd checkbox

Question

I am having a bit of trouble with this. I am trying to click on a check box with an ID that is different each page load.

This is the code I have that doesn't work:

Dim SegmentData As IWebElement = driver.FindElementByXPath("//*[starts-with(@id, 'gwt-uid-5')]")
SegmentData.click()

This is the xpath for the element:

//*[@id="gwt-uid-5324"]

The last 3 digits (324 in this case) are what change.

Nothing I try seems to work for me as each click attempt always fails.

Here is the exception thrown in this instance:

Exception thrown: 'OpenQA.Selenium.ElementNotVisibleException' in WebDriver.dll

And here is the HTML for the checkbox:

<div class="spee-f"> 
    <span class="gwt-CheckBox">
        <input type="checkbox" value="on" id="gwt-uid-5324" tabindex="0">    
        <label for="gwt-uid-5324">Segment statistics by month</label>     
    </span> 
</div>

do as @Grasshopper stated, as well as show the containers (at least 2 up?) — ddavison
– ddavison, Commented Aug 11, 2016 at 19:41

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-11 19:52:52Z

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Try following XPath and let me know it error still occurs:

//span[label[text()="Segment statistics by month"]]/input[@type="checkbox"]

answered Aug 11, 2016 at 19:52

Andersson

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Zach Johnson Over a year ago

Worked like a charm!

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