how to click on a link in case of webdriver(selenium2.0)

Question

i'm new to selenium 2.0. i'm not able to find which code we to use to click on particular link in case of webdriver..

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("url");
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("UserName"));
``WebElement element1=driver.findElement(By.id("password"));

now i need to click on signIn button after sometime signOut

which code i need to use to perform the above operation

Answer 1

I presume the element you want to click is a <button>. Presuming the button has the class "signin", you could click it using the following snippet.

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get(baseUrl + "/");
WebElement signinButton = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("button.signin"));
signinButton.click();

If the button has an id instead of a class, you could use this instead

WebElement signinButton = driver.findElement(By.id("buttonId"));