C# Selenium Button in a Span Class XPath (Amazon.com)

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I am trying to create a proper XPATH syntax in C# to click on a download button from the Amazon business website. Everything I have tried is unable to find the button. Here are some of the things I've tried:

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//button[@type='submit']")).Submit();

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//span[contains(@class,'a-button-inner')][contains(text(),'downloadCSV_button-announce')]")).Submit(); 

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//span[contains(@class,'a-button-inner')][contains(text(),'Download CSV')]")).Submit();

Below is the source code from the Amazon page. Can anyone help me to design the proper XPATH query to click this download button? Thank you.

<h1>Amazon Business Analytics</h1>
<div class="a-row a-spacing-medium a-grid-vertical-align a-grid-center">
    <div class="a-column a-span12">
        <span class="a-declarative" data-action="aba:download-csv" data-aba:download-csv="{}">
            <span id="downloadCSV_button" class="a-button aok-float-right"><span class="a-button-inner"><input class="a-button-input" type="submit" aria-labelledby="downloadCSV_button-announce"><span id="downloadCSV_button-announce" class="a-button-text" aria-hidden="true">Download CSV</span></span></span>
        </span>

Saurabh Gaur · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-14 03:17:05Z

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You should try using WebElement#click() to perform click on element instead as below :-

driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("input.a-button-input[aria-labelledby = 'downloadCSV_button-announce']")).Click();

Or if span element is clickable try as :-

driver.FindElement(By.Id("downloadCSV_button-announce")).Click();

Or

driver.FindElement(By.Id("downloadCSV_button")).Click();

edited Sep 14, 2016 at 3:17

answered Sep 14, 2016 at 1:57

Saurabh Gaur

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4 Comments

Roro Over a year ago

Your first answer with the CssSelector worked perfectly. Thanks for your help.

Roro Over a year ago

Can I ask you a follow up to your answer? If I wanted to use a wild card when looking for this same tag how could I accomplish that? Like say instead of looking for 'downloadCSV_button-announce', I instead looked for 'download*' where * does not care what else is on the end. How would I do that? Thanks for your help!

Saurabh Gaur Over a year ago

Could ask another question regarding this, I or someone will give you answer there, thanks..

Roro Over a year ago

Thanks sir. stackoverflow.com/questions/39500248/…

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