Cannot find element with <i> tag in selenium C#

Question

I have an element onscreen that I am attempting to click, my test runner is telling me that SyntaxError: The expression is not a legal expression. I am trying to access an ' i ' tag on a button.

Here is my call to the driver:

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//i[contains(@class, 'icon-magnifier']")).Click();

Here is my HTML

<button type="submit">
 <i class="icon-magnifier"></i>
</button>

I would use the cssselector as my reference but when cut and paste from firebug it is ridiculously lengthy. Let me know what you would suggest to access this element.

Answer 1

You are missing a ) in there: "//i[contains(@class, 'icon-magnifier')]"

I think the cssselector would look like: By.cssSelector(".icon-magnifier") unless you have multiple icon-magnifier's it should find this one.

• DEnumber50: That worked great, can you answer to why I cannot reference an <i> tag like above? seems to work with any other HTML tag.
• Niels van Reijmersdal: You mean reference By.Xpath? I think it should work, but you had an syntax error in the Xpath.
• DEnumber50: Fixing the syntax error fixed my issue.