Alternative of click() in Selenium

There are several alternatives to the usage of click method in Selenium webdriver. We can use the JavaScript Executor to perform a click action. Selenium can execute JavaScript commands with the help of the executeScript method.

The parameters – arguments[0].click() and locator of the element on which the click is to be performed are passed to this method.

Syntax

WebElement n=driver.findElement(By.linkText("Refund")); JavascriptExecutor j = (JavascriptExecutor) driver; j.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", n);

Example

import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor; public class JsClickLink{    public static void main(String[] args) {       System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");       WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();       //implicit wait       driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);       //launch URL       driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/index.htm");       // identify element       WebElement m = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@title='TutorialsPoint - Home']"));       // click with Javascript Executor       JavascriptExecutor j = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;       j.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", m);       driver.quit();    } }

If we want to click the submit button within a form tag having the value of type attribute as submit, it can be done using the submit method.

Let us the html code of a button with type=submit within the form tag.

Example

import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; public class ClsNameStrategy{    public static void main(String[] args) {       System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\geckodriver.exe");       WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();       //implicit wait       driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);       //URL launch       driver.get("https://www.linkedin.com/");       // identify element       WebElement l = driver.findElement(By.className("input__input"));       l.sendKeys("test@gmail.com");       WebElement x = driver.findElement(By.id("session_password"));       x.sendKeys("1258147");       WebElement m = driver.       findElement(By.cssSelector("button[type='submit']"));       //click button with type submit       m.submit();       driver.close();    } }