I Have a problem on Selenium in click event
WebElement btn = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//form[@name=\"addMemberForm\"]/div[14]/div/button"));
System.out.print(btn);
the result of the print
[[ChromeDriver: chrome on LINUX (0f787065444f6b2cddf2c6ff5e6c056d)] ->
xpath: //form[@name="addMemberForm"]/div[14]/div/button]
and when triggered with btn.click() event error says element not visible
org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: element not visible
(Session info: chrome=52.0.2743.82)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.23.409687 (c46e862757edc04c06b1bd88724d15a5807b84d1),platform=Linux 4.2.0-42-generic x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 11 milliseconds
Build info: version: 'unknown', revision: '2aa21c1', time: '2016-08-02 14:59:43 -0700'
System info: host: 'kyben-All-Series', ip: '127.0.1.1', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '4.2.0-42-generic', java.version: '1.8.0_101'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
Capabilities [{applicationCacheEnabled=false, rotatable=false, mobileEmulationEnabled=false, networkConnectionEnabled=false, chrome={chromedriverVersion=2.23.409687 (c46e862757edc04c06b1bd88724d15a5807b84d1), userDataDir=/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.8Xt3v7}, takesHeapSnapshot=true, databaseEnabled=false, handlesAlerts=true, hasTouchScreen=false, version=52.0.2743.82, platform=LINUX, browserConnectionEnabled=false, nativeEvents=true, acceptSslCerts=true, locationContextEnabled=true, webStorageEnabled=true, browserName=chrome, takesScreenshot=true, javascriptEnabled=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true}]
Session ID: 0f787065444f6b2cddf2c6ff5e6c056d
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:206)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:158)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:683)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.execute(RemoteWebElement.java:319)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.click(RemoteWebElement.java:85)
at testCase.teamMemberNew2.chngPassLogout(teamMemberNew2.java:127)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:85)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:639)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:816)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:1124)
at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:125)
at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:108)
at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:774)
at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:624)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:359)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:354)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:312)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:261)
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1215)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1140)
at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1048)
at org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:126)
at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:152)
at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:57)
Best Answer
Few things you can check:
Obvious ones: Is the button visible when you click it? Is the element locator correct?
Is there any other element on the page with the same xpath? It may be possible that an element with same xpath is located on some background page/ or is part of some hidden widget. As a result, findElement() is actually pointing to the hidden button.
Have you tried giving an unique id to the button itself? That will help you to locate the button uniquely.