Selenium Element not corresponding to Click

[midaste]

I have the following element that is the 4th element on a nav bar within a website:

<a href="#step3" data-toggle="tab" data-bind="click: function(){ viewModel.GetRequiredDocuments(viewModel.xxxx); viewModel.xxxx(); }" aria-expanded="true">Documents</a>

I am able to select the element. I have confirmed that I have the right element by locals window in vba and debug print the label (ie Documents). However, when I send the "click", the website does not move to the proper tab.

It is not a wait until it is clickable problem as I have tried an explicit wait in which period I am to click on the element using the mouse (as a test).

Here is my relevant code:

Set documentLink = driver.FindElementByXPath("/html/body/div[11]/div[1]/div/ul/li[4]")
documentLink.Click

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Edgar_]

index was outside the bounds of the array.

It's probably 1 instead of 0
driver.FindElementsByTag("li")(4).FindElementsByTag("a")(1).Click

If you open the website from a regular browser like Firefox, Chrome, Edge, etc., and open its Development Tools, what happens if you do this from the console tab?
document.getElementsByTagName("li")[3].getElementsByTagName("a")[0].click()

And how about this?
viewModel.GetRequiredDocuments(viewModel.xxxx)

I always try within a regular browser before using anything automated. If it works within the browser, it will most likely work with automation, the only difference is the syntax.

 

[midaste]

It's probably 1 instead of 0
driver.FindElementsByTag("li")(4).FindElementsByTag("a")(1).Click

If you open the website from a regular browser like Firefox, Chrome, Edge, etc., and open its Development Tools, what happens if you do this from the console tab?
document.getElementsByTagName("li")[3].getElementsByTagName("a")[0].click()

And how about this?
viewModel.GetRequiredDocuments(viewModel.xxxx)

I always try within a regular browser before using anything automated. If it works within the browser, it will most likely work with automation, the only difference is the syntax.

I don't think I can use the find elements by tag. The webpage has several hundreds of lines of code and I think it is picking up the wrong element when I find by tag instead of path. When I try this, I did a second version where I assigned it to a variable and looked in the locals window and it was wrong element. In the console, I don't know how to focus on the iframe like I do in VBA and therefore, it clicks on something in the sidebar. When I type the viewmodel line you asked about in the console, I get "Uncaught ReferenceError: viewModel is not defined at <anonymous>:1:1"

 

[Edgar_]

Sorry, I can't do much without a URL. Good luck.