Getting Selenium to click a radio button with no ID or name

Question

I'm trying to set up a Selenium test of a page and can't get it to click on radio buttons

I'm trying to use the IWebDriver xpath method

<fieldset class="radio-button-list">
                            <label >
                                <span class="className">Text1</span>
                                <input type="radio" value="Button1">
                            </label>
                            <label>
                                <span class="className">Text2</span>
                                <input type="radio" value="Button2">
                            </label>
</fieldset>

This is what I'm using...

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//button[contains(text(),'Text2')]")).Click();

I expect it to click on the radio button but I'm getting this error:

  OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException: 'no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//button[contains(text(),'Text2')]"}

Are the fields always in the same order where you could do something like /html/body/fieldset/label[1]/input — Ryan Schlueter, Jun 18 '19 at 19:21
They are. Could you clarify that code? Does that go inside the xpath? — John, Jun 18 '19 at 19:23
yep thats the xpath of me just throwing it in a blank. html document. If it doesn't have a value I just go into chrome tools select the node and copy xpath. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3030487/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-xpath-in-google-chrome — Ryan Schlueter, Jun 18 '19 at 19:29

Jason · Answer 1 · 2019-06-18T20:30:28.757

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Try using this:

driver.FindElement(By.XPath(".//fieldset[@class='radio-button-list']/label[2]/input[@value='Button2']")).Click();

I think what's happening is there is no 'button' element on your page, hence the 'NoSuchElementException'.

edited Jun 18 '19 at 20:30

answered Jun 18 '19 at 19:37

Jason

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It's not actually the second button on the page. Just the second within that Fieldset. – John Jun 18 '19 at 20:15
Ahh yes you're right, see my edit for an updated Xpath that specifies the fieldset – Jason Jun 18 '19 at 20:22

Getting Selenium to click a radio button with no ID or name

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