Unable to click/select the SPAN id

[swtester]

Hi

  When to try to click a button which is in span id(given below the tag of that element)
, it is unable to locate the element

    Create Record


I tried with the following locators

 id, xpath, link, partiallink, css selector

Please let me know

Thanks

[swtester]

Hi

  When to try to click a button which is in span id(given below the tag of that element)
, it is unable to locate the element

   
SPAN id=actiontoolbaraddnewrecord_link_text>Create Record</SPAN


I tried with the following locators, that did not work

 id, xpath, link, partiallink, css selector


Thanks

[crisslyjames]

Are you testing with Firefox?
If so, there is an issue with click() not working with FF and Webdriver2.35. Please see following site for more details: https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=6112

From the same site, I was able to find a workaround. I added this code to launch Firefox and it worked for me:

    public class TestingInFirefox {
       
        WebDriver driver; //declare Webdriver object
        FirefoxProfile profile; //declare Firefoxprofile object
       
                //method to open Firefox browser
                public void openBrowser() {
                profile = new FirefoxProfile();
                profile.setEnableNativeEvents(false);
                driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

        }//end method
    }//end class

 Please note that you will have to import 'import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile' to work with the above.

Hope this helps.

[swtester]

Hi crissly,

  Appreciate your response. I am trying with IE browser since the application which i am testing mostly supports IE. Am not sure whether the profile of a browser will be the solution for this issue, but let me try an check with that and update the status.

Thank you very much

[swtester]

I tried with the profile option, that too is not working..

When i try to check with Selenium IDE to find how it locates this element, but i dont see any element or name/id, it is not showing anything..

Any other input on this...?

Thanks

[softwaretestingforum]

First of all this is not a training session question.
Moreover there is a dedicated forum to ask Selenium questions here, please use this forum to ask Selenium questions -

http://www.seleniumtests.com/p/selenium-2-forum.html