Cant find and click button By.XPath(“//button[@title='MyCompany']”).Click()

Question

Trying to find an click the element of a button "MyCompany". However I get NoSuchElementExist when calling driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//button[@title='MyCompany']").Click() ? What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

There are 2 things you can try:

First, use the full xpath (in chrome dev tools, right click element, copy > full Xpath).

Second, because it is angular, sometimes the element likes being in the viewport or the page needs to be loaded all the way first. This can be accomplished by using 'IJavaScriptExecutor'.

//use full xpath here instead
var xPathButton = @"//button[@title='MyCompany']";
    using (var driver = new ChromeDriver())
        {

            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://website.com);
            //scrolls to bottom to ensure page load
            
           ((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver).ExecuteScript("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight - 1)"); 
            Task.Delay(2000).Wait();
            
            var companyButton = driver.FindElementByXPath(xPathButton);
            ((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver).ExecuteScript("arguments[0].click();", companyButton);
         }