I am having trouble in locating search bus button in red bus site using selenium webdriver with java

Question

public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","./drivers/chromedriver");
    WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();
    driver.get("https://www.redbus.in/");
    driver.findElement(By.id("search_btn")).click();
}

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I am not able to click the search bus button.

Answer 1

As per the HTML you have shared to locate the Search Buses button and invoke click() you can use either of the following line of code :

• cssSelector

   driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("button.fl.button#search_btn")).click();

• xpath

   driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@class='fl button' and @id='search_btn']")).click();

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Update

With Selenium-Java Client v3.9.1 , GeckoDriver v0.19.1 and Firefox Quantum v58.0.2 this block of code works perfect at my end :

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver =  new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("https://www.redbus.in/");
new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("button.fl.button#search_btn"))).click();
System.out.println("Search button clicked");
driver.quit();

Console Output :

Search button clicked

Snapshot :

Answer 2

you can try this xpath:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//section[@id='search']
//button[@id='search_btn']")).click();