Selenium WebDriver Java cssSelector Span

Question

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, Jul 08 '16 at 18:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 08 '16 at 18:18

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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 08 '16 at 18:18

JeffC

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answered Jul 08 '16 at 17:38

jaredgilmore

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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 Jul 08 '16 at 18:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 08 '16 at 18:21

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

edited Jul 08 '16 at 18:21

JeffC

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answered Jul 08 '16 at 17:18

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Selenium doesn't like or dislike attributes. If done correctly, any attribute will work. – JeffC Jul 08 '16 at 18:20

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 09 '16 at 14:21

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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 09 '16 at 14:21

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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.

Selenium WebDriver Java cssSelector Span

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