Do you know we can also Click in Selenium webdriver using JavaScript using different approaches. I have covered previously as well like How to perform click operation in Selenium Webdriver but now we are going to talk about something new I mean how to click in Selenium webdriver using JavaScript for an element which is disabled.
While working with disabled web element you will get Illegal State exception which might be new for you. You can easily come out using JAVAScript. This is one of the most important questions in Interviews as well.
If you are completely new to JavaScript then I would highly recommend you to visit JavaScript in Selenium and Different usage .
Overview
Let me tell you what exactly you will learn today and why I am covering this.
I had one scenario where some element was invisible and the requirement was I had to click on that elements. As we know Selenium does not that capability that it can change the visibility of Element.
JavaScript is much powerful which takes the complete access of DOM, so using JavaScript we can make any element visible forcefully.
Finally, I completed my script using JavaScript and performed all the required operation.
Approach for – How to click in Selenium webdriver using JavaScript.
If the element is invisible and if you try to click on any operation then it will throw Element Not visible exception which will fail your script. You can handle this exception using try catch approach as well but we have another approach using JavaScript.
We can execute any JavaScript using JavaScriptExecutor interface in Selenium. It has a method called executeScript which will perform our task.
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Program click in Selenium webdriver using JavaScript
// First identify element
WebElement elem = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='__dialog1-footer']/button[1]/div"));
// This will enable this element if element is invisible
String js = "arguments[0].style.height='auto'; arguments[0].style.visibility='visible';";
// Execute the Java Script for the element which we find out
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript(js, elem);
// Click on element
elem.click();
This is one of the shortest posts but it is useful when you get stuck with some scenario. Let me know your thoughts on this in below comment section.
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Hi Ranjan,
You can use this link https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/ for your practice purpose
Hi Mukesh,
I am verifying button is enabled or disabled in UI. For that i am using enable method,but enable method is returning true when button is disabled on UI.
Hi Madhu,
I’ll recommend you to use some attribute for button which gets change based on button behavior.
You are right Mukesh sir, It is very helpful code to my application and we used it in our script as well.
Thanks a lot!
how to highlight a particular field (for example if we have entered a wrong UN, p/w)? & also create this method & call it wherever we seem to have an exception or where we do negative testing.
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