How to click an element in Selenium WebDriver using JavaScript

Question

I have the following HTML:

<button name="btnG" class="gbqfb" aria-label="Google Search" id="gbqfb"><span class="gbqfi"></span></button>

My following code for clicking "Google Search" button is working well using Java in WebDriver.

driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfb")).click();

I want to use JavaScript with WebDriver to click the button. How can I do it?

Answer 1

Executing a click via JavaScript has some behaviors of which you should be aware. If, for example, the code bound to the onclick event of your element invokes window.alert(), you may find your Selenium code hanging, depending on the implementation of the browser driver. That said, you can use the JavascriptExecutor class to do this. My solution differs from others proposed, however, in that you can still use the WebDriver methods for locating the elements.

// Assume driver is a valid WebDriver instance that
// has been properly instantiated elsewhere.
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfd"));
JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);

You should also note that you might be better off using the click() method of the WebElement interface, but disabling native events before instantiating your driver. This would accomplish the same goal (with the same potential limitations), but not force you to write and maintain your own JavaScript.

Answer 2

Here is the code using JavaScript to click the button in WebDriver:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
jse.executeScript("document.getElementById('gbqfb').click();");

Answer 3

I know this isn't JavaScript, but you can also physically use the mouse-click to click a dynamic Javascript anchor:

public static void mouseClickByLocator( String cssLocator ) {
     String locator = cssLocator;
     WebElement el = driver.findElement( By.cssSelector( locator ) );
     Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
     builder.moveToElement( el ).click( el );
     builder.perform();
}

Answer 4

Not sure OP answer was really answered.

var driver = new webdriver.Builder().usingServer('serverAddress').withCapabilities({'browserName': 'firefox'}).build();

driver.get('http://www.google.com');
driver.findElement(webdriver.By.id('gbqfb')).click();

Answer 5

You can't use WebDriver to do it in JavaScript, as WebDriver is a Java tool. However, you can execute JavaScript from Java using WebDriver, and you could call some JavaScript code that clicks a particular button.

WebDriver driver; // Assigned elsewhere
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
js.executeScript("window.document.getElementById('gbqfb').click()");

Answer 6

This code will perform the click operation on the WebElement "we" after 100 ms:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;

jse.executeScript("var elem=arguments[0]; setTimeout(function() {elem.click();}, 100)", we);

Answer 7

By XPath: inspect the element on target page, copy Xpath and use the below script:worked for me.

WebElement nameInputField = driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[6]/div[1]/div[3]/div/div/div[1]/div[3]/ul/li[4]/a"));
JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", nameInputField);

Answer 8

Cross browser testing java scripts

public class MultipleBrowser {

    public WebDriver driver= null;
    String browser="mozilla";
    String url="https://www.omnicard.com";

    @BeforeMethod
    public void LaunchBrowser() {

        if(browser.equalsIgnoreCase("mozilla"))
            driver= new FirefoxDriver();
        else if(browser.equalsIgnoreCase("safari"))
            driver= new SafariDriver();
        else if(browser.equalsIgnoreCase("chrome"))
            //System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","/Users/mhossain/Desktop/chromedriver");
            driver= new ChromeDriver(); 
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(4, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.navigate().to(url);
    }

}

but when you want to run firefox you need to chrome path disable, otherwise browser will launch but application may not.(try both way) .