Selenium Webdriver submit vs click

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Let s say I have an input in a form  looks like a button and interacts like a button  which generates some data  well  the server generates the data based on the form parameters  but for the user  the button does it     based on the parameters in the form   When I use click    the whole process hangs  it actually freezes  no exceptions or errors    From the Selenium website      Now submit the form  WebDriver will find the form for us from the element element submit      So WebDriver has a submit   method  Is there any difference  logic wise  between using a click   on a button or submit

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The submit   function is there to make life easier  You can use it on any element inside of form tags to submit that form    You can also search for the submit button and use click      So the only difference is click   has to be done on the submit button and submit   can be done on any form element   It s up to you   http   docs seleniumhq org docs 03 webdriver jsp user-input-filling-in-forms

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Also  correct me if I m wrong  but I believe that submit will wait for a new page to load  whereas click will immediately continue executing code

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I was a great fan of submit   but not anymore    In the web page that I test  I enter username and password and click Login  When I invoked usernametextbox submit    password textbox is cleared  becomes empty  and login keeps failing    After breaking my head for sometime  when I replaced usernametextbox submit   with loginbutton click    it worked like a magic

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Click   - Perform only click operation as like mouse click    Submit   - Perform Enter operation as like keyboard Enter event   For Example  Consider a login page where it contains username and password and submit button   On filling password if we want to login without clicking login button  we need to user  submit button on password where  click   operation does not work  to login into application   Brif   driver get  https    anyURL     driver manage   window   maximize     driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 30 TimeUnit SECONDS    driver findElement By id  txtUserId    sendKeys  abc test com     WebElement text   driver findElement By id  txtPassword     text sendKeys  password     Thread sleep 1000    text click        This will not work - it will on perform click operation not submit operation text submit      This will perform submit operation has enter key

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Neither submit   nor click   is good enough  However  it works fine if you follow it with an ENTER key   search form   driver find element by id elem id  search form send keys search string  search form click   from selenium webdriver common keys import Keys search form send keys Keys ENTER    Tested on Mac 10 11  python 2 7 9  Selenium 2 53 5  This runs in parallel  meaning returns after entering the ENTER key  doesn t wait for page to load

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submit   method can be used to click on the button present in the form and Type attribute should be  submit    click   method is used to click on the button in the webpage    Correct me if i am wrong

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There is a difference between click   and submit      submit   submits the form and executes the url that is given by the  action  attribute  If you have any javascript-function or jquery-plugin running to submit the form e g  via ajax  submit   will ignore it  With click   the javascript-functions will be executed

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