Troubleshooting of selenium errors

SeleniumHQ Browser Automation

How to resolve Uncaught Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\InvalidSelectorException

Error message

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\InvalidSelectorException: invalid selector: The result of the xpath expression "xxx" is: [object Attr]. It should be an element.
  (Session info: chrome=83.0.4103.61) in /path/to/vendor/php-webdriver/webdriver/lib/Exception/WebDriverException.php:105

Situation

• After the term was keyed in into the text box, the script shuld auto click the specified button which specified by XPath expression.

Possibile soultions

• Solution1: Using headless chrome
• Solution2: Not click the button which specified by XPath expression. Send the ENTER to submit the form.

References

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Template

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