Question about finding a button

[David Patterson]

I'm puzzled by the following:

1) I try:

             WebElement loginButton = driver.findElement(By.ByLinkText.linkText( "Log in" ) );

        and this fails because the element cannot be found.

2) I try:

       List<WebElement> buttons = driver.findElement( By.ByTagName.tagName( "button" ));

       for( WebElement button : buttons ) {

            if ( button instanceOf RemoteWebElement ) {

                RemoteWebElement remoteButton = (RemoteWebElement) button;

                if (remoteButton.isDisplayed() && remoteButton.getAttribute( "class" ).equals("xx") ) {

                     String text = remoteButton.getText();

                      ** text = "Log in".

                     ...

                }

            }

       }

       and it works.

Can anyone explain why one works and the other doesn't?

Dave P

[Shawn McCarthy]

       List<WebElement> buttons = driver.findElement( By.ByTagName.tagName( "button" ));

should fail because findElement will return a single element. Also, the first one assumes its a link (a tag). In the 2nd one, you are looking for a button tag.

[Rohit Patwari]

By.linktext is only used for links ( tag=a)

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[David Patterson]

Thanks for the clarification.

Dave P