 <p>Try giving this xpath instead of that.</p> <p>IWebElement downloadElement = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("/html/body/div[2]/div/main/section[1]/div/div/ul/li[1]/a/strong"));</p> <p>Sometimes their is some problems with IE11 selenium is not able to work as expected. so i use double click instead of click in certain scenarios.</p> <p>Actions action = new Actions(driver); action.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[2]/div/main/section[1]/div/div/ul/li[1]/a/strong"))).doubleClick().perform();</p> <p>try using both, hope it will helps</p>