Unable to click on checkbox using Selenium WebDriver

Question

I am passing in the checkbox ID, grabbing the element and then if the checkbox is not checked I want to check it. It wouldn't check the box though, so I was debugging and then it worked when I added a second one in, so I added 2 to make it work and cleaned up some clutter I had created with commented code and such, then I ran it again and it didn't check the checkbox on either click. The funny thing is that I am getting focus on the checkbox.

Could this be an issue when there are certain security measures in place for the code? Is there a workaround for this?

Not sure if it matters but I am using XUnit for the testing framework.

[Then(@"I check the '(.*)' checkbox")]
public void ThenICheckTheCheckbox(string checkBoxId)
{
 var checkBox = Ie.FindElementById(checkBoxId);
 var isChecked = checkBox.Selected;
 if (!isChecked)
 {
 checkBox.Click(); 
 checkBox.Click();
 isChecked = checkBox.Selected;
 }
 Assert.True(isChecked, $"the checkbox with id of: {checkBoxId}, is not checked");
}

The HTML for the checkbox is this

<input class="check-box" data-val="true" data-val-required="The Is Active field is required." 
 id="IsActive" name="IsActive" type="checkbox" value="true">

• Malachi: wouldn't let me add a new tag xunit
• Bookeater: I'd recommend rolling back to the untidy, working version then go from there.
• Malachi: @Bookeater my current solution has me executing a client side script against the page to check the checkbox
• user1519137: Can you show me the checkbox Id you are using to find the element
• Malachi: pretty sure it is the ID in the HTML of the Element --> IsActive @user1519137 it has been over a year, I would have to find this code again.

Answer 1

Rather than accessing the element by Id try doing it with xpath. I can see the there is an tag attached to this element. So you could make use of that.So for example if your checkbox is setup like this:

<div id = "divContainer">
<input class="check-box" data-val="true" data-val-required="The Is Active 
 field is required." 
id="IsActive" name="IsActive" type="checkbox" value="true">
 </div>

Then you can use something like this:

 bool selected 
 =driver.findElemeny(By.xpath(.//[@id='divContainer']/input)).isSelected();

And then you can make use of the selected variable to click or unclick the checkbox. If you could provide me with the full page's code then I will be able to write the full xpath for you