How to get the number of buttons within a div using webdriver?

Question

I have trying to get the number of buttons(count) enabled in a web page using their class names. But I couldn't get it as I wanted. Always I get count as 0.

 int count = 0;
 try {
 List<WebElement> Elements = driver.findElements(By.className(Locators.Buttons));
 for (int Counter = 0; Counter < Elements.size(); Counter++) {
 count = Counter;
 }
 System.out.print("############################################# " + count);
 }
 catch (Exception e)
 {
 }
 return count;

I have declared xpath as follows

//button[class='btn btn--05 thm--01'] 

Other buttons have a class names starting like this. I tried using contains keyword. But didn't work.

Number of buttons enabled can be varied. Therefore buttons should be identified using above class name. How can I do it?
I have tried doing these examples too.
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Answer 1

@ is missing from the Xpath you have provided:

It should be like

//button[@class='btn btn--05 thm--01'] 

This will work.

• Syrus: I tried it. But that's not the problem.
• Prasanna venkatesh: Can you please share the HTML code so that I can help you
• Syrus: Thanks for trying to to help. But I could find the mistake and fix the problem

Answer 2

I tried found the solution. There was a little mistake I had done also did a little change in the xpath.
First change the By.className to By.xpath
Then changed the xpath as "//button[contains(@class, 'btn btn--05 thm--01')]"

• Vishal Aggarwal: This is still very brittle and may break easily in few subsequent app. releases.Always try to use more stable static property like Id/name etc.
• Syrus: Yes, xpath is bit risky but there are no ID's or names availble. Therefore I had to go with the best option available right now