selenium unable to find element button

Question

i am trying to get this button with selenium in c#

<a id="1|0AqnCSdkjQ0|none" href="" target="_self" rel="nofollow" class="download_link 1">Download</a>

i tried with id and class but it didn't work.

Here is the web page: http://www.mp3juices.cc/ - > on the next page

Answer 1

Your code is failing with that "Compound class" error because you are, basically, asking for two class names.
The button has the class download_link.

If you do something like driver.findElements(By.className("download_link")) you'll get a List of all the buttons, and get whichever you wanted.

(The above snippet is Java, so you may have to adapt it to C#)

Answer 2

you can use this as a solution

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='download_link 1'] and contains(text(),'Download')"));

Answer 3

Did you try

driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("a.download_link.2")

When you tried to use "download_link 2" you were requesting two class names. You can specify two class names (or more) in a CSS Selector and put a period between them. The CSS selector above is read as find an A tag with class download_link and class 2.

Answer 4

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
        try
        {
            IWebElement myDynamicElement = wait.Until<IWebElement>((d) =>
            {
                try
                {
                    return d.FindElement(By.ClassName("dl_link 1"));
                }
                catch
                {
                    return null;
                }
            });
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {

        }


        ReadOnlyCollection<IWebElement> lists = driver.FindElements(By.ClassName("download_link"));
        lists[0].Click();

*The code is not optimized, but it works great. (First part i am using to wait for the button to be loaded).