Selenium can't find element by id and xpath

Question

I read already all the other questions about this topic, there are a lot. I tried some but I do not find error in the code.

I tried adding a timer too to wait for the page to load.

Below the html code and the java:

HTML:

<form id="myform" method="get" action="">
    <input type="hidden" name="something1" id="something1.1" />
    <input type="hidden" name="something2" value="" />
	<table>
        <tr>
            <td><label>Name: </label></td>
            <td><select name="name">
                <option selected="selected" value="1000">FirstNameOnly</option>
            </select></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td><label>Direction: </label></td>
            <td><select name="Direction">
                <option selected="selected" value="">Choose One</option>
                <option value="UP">UP</option>
            </select></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2"><label>Time: </label></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td><label>From: </label></td>
            <td><input type="text" value="" name="from" id="id6"/>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td><label>To: </label></td>
            <td><input type="text" value="" name="to" id="id7"/>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td><label>File type: </label></td>
            <td><span id="id8">
            <input name="fileType" type="radio" checked="checked" value="0" id="id8-0"/><label for="id8-0">Excel</label>
            <input name="fileType" type="radio" value="1" id="id8-1"/><label for="id8-1">CSV</label>
            </span></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
        <td></td>
        <td>
            <input type="submit" name="p::submit" id="id9" value="Preview">
            <input type="submit" name="download" id="ida" value="Download">
        </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</form>

JAVA:

public void HeadlessChromeStartDownload(){

    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "src/main/resources/chromedriver.exe");

    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
    if (ValidateOS.isWindows()){
        options.setBinary("C:\\Users\\Juri\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome SxS\\Application\\chrome.exe");
        System.out.println("Windows system");
    } else if (ValidateOS.isUnix()){
        options.setBinary("/path/to/chrome/not/yet/added");
    }

    options.addArguments("--headless --disable-gpu");
    ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

    driver.get("http://localhost/that-test-page.html");
    //WebElement timer = (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10)).until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("id8-1")));

    WebElement select1 = driver.findElementByName("FirstNameOnly");
    Select field1 = new Select(select1);
    field1.selectByIndex(1);

    WebElement select2 = driver.findElementByName("Direction");
    Select field2 = new Select(select2);
    field2.selectByIndex(1);

    driver.findElementByName("from").sendKeys("21/06/2017");

    driver.findElementByName("to").sendKeys("22/06/2017");

    /*File scrFile = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
    try {
        FileUtils.copyFile(scrFile, new File("C:\\screen1.jpg"));
        System.out.println("Screen saved");
    } catch (IOException e) { System.out.println("Screen NOT saved"); }
    */

    //driver.findElement(By.id("id8-1")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//form[1]/input[6]")).click();

    //driver.findElementById("ida").click();

    driver.quit();
}

It really does not matter if I use:

driver.findElement(By.id("id8-1")).click();

or

driver.findElementById("id8-1").click();

or

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//form[1]/input[6]")).click();

I can't get Selenium to click on that radio button. And the same goes for the rest of the code, in fact I used findElementByName which obviously is not the best choice.

Thanks to anyone who knows what is wrong with this code!! (: (:

UPDATE1:

So, I can not explain what happened yesterday. The website I am trying to test was using id8-1 for that radio button. Today it is id3-1, and both the solution with: driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[value='1']")).click(); or mine: driver.findElement(By.id("id3-1")).click(); worked.

I'm astonished. It was clearly 8 yesterday. Still, I do not know if using the cssSelector solution is the best, because I want to work with the IDs. I upvoted all the answers because all are useful but I wish to use IDs so I'm using my code.. In case of updates by your side I will choose it the one (: (:

Thanks to all!!!

Answer 1

When driving IE with Selenium, I encountered a problem where driver.find_element_by_id("elem_id") can't find it but running javascript document.getElementById("elem_id") in IE's developer console can. In my case, I was extracting a value. So I worked it around by doing driver.execute_script('return document.getElementById("elem_id").outerText')