How to click the link or web button in selenium web driver in java?

We can click any link or web button or any web element in a webpage by using click() method provided in Selenium webdriver API in JAVA.

Example -

WebElement e = driver.findElement(By.id("myid"));
e.click();

Above code will click on the element (link/button etc) whose id attribute value is - myid


Complete Example to click on button or link  using Selenium Webdriver in Java

Below example shows how we can click on any element in selenium webdriver in Java.

//import the required packages and classes.

import java.io.File;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;
import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Action;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

@SuppressWarnings("unused")
public class OpenGoogle {
    
public static void main(String [] arg) 
{

//set the path of the chrome driver exe file

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Selenuim\\chromedriver2.8.exe");

//create the new instance of the chrome browser
WebDriver driver =  new ChromeDriver();


try{

//set the implicit and page load time outs  

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(50,TimeUnit.SECONDS);

//navigate to given url
driver.get("https://www.google.co.in/preferences");

//Maximize the browser window
driver.manage().window().maximize();

//identify the button or link element using id
WebElement e = driver.findElement(By.id("myid"));

//enter value in the editbox
e.click()


Thread.sleep(2000);

}

catch(Exception e){
 System.out.println("Exception - > " + e.toString());
 }
 finally{
  driver.close();
  driver.quit();
 }
} //main function ends
 
}//class ends

Above code will click the element with id attribute value is - myid

We can also click on the web element by using java script code as mentioned below.
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click()",e);


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