Not able to click on button in java selenium?

Question

HTML code:

<button type="button" class="btn btn-main dropdown-toggle" dropdown-toggle="" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">create
                <span class="icon-dir-down"></span>
                <span class="sr-only">Toggle Dropdown</span>
            </button>

Using class name I tried to click on button but am not able to click.

I tried the following code:

driver.findElement(By.className("btn btn-main dropdown-toggle")).click();

Are there other Web Elements in your project that you are finding via className? And, are they working? — Brian
– Brian, Commented Feb 2, 2016 at 18:37
@Brian No..help me please i don't know how to do it ...please — nrs
– nrs, Commented Feb 2, 2016 at 18:38
selenium contributor here. check out this issue filed on our repository. you are misusing className. @PeterRasmussen's answer is the best way to accomplish it. — ddavison
– ddavison, Commented Feb 2, 2016 at 18:43

Peter Rasmussen · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-02 18:42:46Z

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You can try and get it by cssSelector instead. As far as I remember by className is only for one class.

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".btn.btn-main.dropdown-toggle")).click();

edited Feb 2, 2016 at 18:42

answered Feb 2, 2016 at 18:41

Peter Rasmussen

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Brian Over a year ago

OP, Peter beat me to it. I was going to suggest finding it by the cssSelector as well. Give it a shot.

ddavison Over a year ago

see my comment above. @raghavendrat if you wanted to know why.. myself and luke (contributors to selenium) discuss the reasons

nrs Over a year ago

@Brian yes sure... I should wait 3 minutes to accept this answer

Amit Bhoraniya · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-03 07:55:24Z

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Executing a click via webdriver has sometime unexpected behaviors.If its not working then alternate way JavascriptExecutor class to do this. Its always preferable to use click() method of the WebElement.

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".btn.btn-main.dropdown-toggle"));
JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);

edited Feb 3, 2016 at 7:55

answered Feb 3, 2016 at 7:45

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