Unable to locate button via Selenium WebDriver

Question

Using Selenium to try and locate + press a button inside of an Atlassian Jira environment.

The button class is not unique and the button doesn't have a button ID. I assume the website is built in an incompatible way to interact with Selenium. All attempts end with no elements found. Has anyone got any suggestions?

I'm using PowerShell currently and have tired numerous search methods here's the latest which I hoped would work but still nothing..

# Find the <span> element with the text "Update site"
$span_element = $driver.FindElementByXPath("//span[text()='Update site']")

# Navigate to its parent <button> element
$button_element = $span_element.FindElementByXPath("./..")

# Perform actions on the button
$button_element.Click()

Answer 1

One way is to look for all buttons and then filter out the button which has a span with the text you want.

E.g.

# Find all buttons on the page
$allButtons = $driver.FindElementsByTagName("button")

# Filter the button with a span element containing "Update site"
$updateButton = $null
foreach ($button in $allButtons) {
    try {
        # Check if the button has a span with the specified text
        $span = $button.FindElementByXPath(".//span[text()='Update site']")
        if ($span -ne $null) {
            # If found, set $updateButton to this button
            $updateButton = $button
            break
        }
    } catch {
        # If an exception is raised, it means this button doesn't have the desired span
    }
}

if ($updateButton -ne $null) {
    # If the desired button is found, click it
    $updateButton.Click()
} else {
    Write-Host "No button with 'Update site' found"
}

Or you can do it in one search:

$updateButton = $driver.FindElementByXPath("//button[span[text()='Update site']]")