How to click a button on webpage using Selenium?

This article is all about how to click any button using Selenium on a webpage and many more concepts related to the same which are discussed below.

What is Selenium?

Selenium is a widely used tool for testing web-based applications that checks if they are doing as expected. It is a prominent preference amongst testers for cross-browser testing and is viewed as one of the most reliable systems for web application automation evaluation. Selenium is also platform-independent, so it can provide distributed testing using the Selenium Network.

How to click on a button using Selenium

Selenium can automatically click on buttons that appear on a webpage. To do this there are two major steps we have to take:

1. Find the button.
2. Click on the button.

We can find the button on the web page by using methods like find_element_by_class_name() , find_element_by_name() , find_element_by_id() etc, following which we can click on it by using the click() method.

Syntax:

# finding the button using ID
button = driver.find_element_by_id(ID)

# clicking on the button
button.click()

To click a button using Selenium, first locate the element that you want to click and perform some action, then use the click()method to act.

Here’s an example in Selenium Java.

import time
# importing webdriver from selenium
from selenium import webdriver

# Here Chrome  will be used
driver = webdriver.Chrome()

# URL of website
url = "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/"

# Opening the website
driver.get(url)

# getting the button by class name
button = driver.find_element_by_class_name("slide-out-btn")

# clicking on the button
button.click()

This will click on the button and a popup will be shown.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Selenium is a powerful tool for automating web application testing with using the different languages. with locating elements and using the click()method, testers will efficiently automate button clicks and interactions.