Selenium Webdriver submit() vs click().

The submit() function shall wait for the page to load however the click() waits only if any explicit wait condition is provided. If a form has a submit of type button, the submit() method cannot be used. Also, if a button is outside

Thus we see that click() works for both type buttons irrespective of the fact that the button is inside or outside of

Example

Code Implementation with submit().

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class SubmitForm{
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");
      WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
      String url = "https://www.facebook.com/";
      driver.get(url);
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
      // identify elements
      driver.findElement(By.id("email")).sendKeys("abc@gmail.com");
      driver.findElement(By.id("pass")).sendKeys("123456");
      // submitting form with submit()
      driver.findElement(By.id("pass")).submit();
      driver.quit()
   }
}

Example

Code Implementation with click().

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class ClickForm{
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");
      WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
      String url = "https://www.facebook.com/";
      driver.get(url);
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
      // identify elements
      driver.findElement(By.id("email")).sendKeys("abc@gmail.com");
      driver.findElement(By.id("pass")).sendKeys("123456");
      // submitting form with click()
      driver.findElement(By.name("login")).click();
      driver.quit()
   }
}