Using Selenium with Firefox to interact with span elements

Having trouble selecting an element by linkText within a span tag? It works in Chrome, but not in Firefox. The code I'm using is: 

login.wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.linkText("Kassa"))).click();
Other elements without the span tag work fine. What's the best way to reach this element?

<nav class="site-navbar navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top bg-teal-600" role="navigation">
    <div class="container-fluid">
        <div class="navbar-header">
                <div class="navbar-brand site-gridmenu-toggle" data-toggle="gridmenu">
                    <span class="navbar-brand-text">whatever</span>
                </div>
            <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle hamburger hamburger-close collapsed" data-target="#site-navbar-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
                <i class="hamburger-bar" aria-hidden="true"></i>
            </button>

            <button type="button" class="navbar-avatar navbar-toggle padding-horizontal-0" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#" aria-expanded="false" data-animation="scale-up" role="button">
                <span class="avatar avatar-online" style="top: -3px">
                    <img src="https://whatever.png" alt="...">                  <i></i>
                </span>
            </button>

                         <a type="button" href="https://whatever" class="navbar-toggle padding-top-15 padding-horizontal-0">
                <span class="btn btn-warning"> Kassa </span>
            </a>

Code snippet: 


System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe");
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
driver.manage().window().maximize();

Trying to find the element on the webpage:

login.wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.linkText("Kassa"))).click();

Image of the navigation bar nav. bar

firefoxselenium-webdriverautomation

Answer №1

While it's typically expected that code working in Chrome will also work in Firefox, sometimes this isn't the case. If you encounter issues, consider locating the element using the following approach:

UPDATED METHOD:

WebElement navElement = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.container-fluid a>span.btn.btn-warning"));

Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.moveToElement(navElement).click().build().perform();

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