How do I get the parent element of any given element in selenium with ruby?
Let's say I have this:
<ul>
<li id="a"></li>
</ul>
and I can get the li with driver.find_element(id: "a"), how do I get the parent of that element that I found?
This code will help you to find the parent element
element = driver.find_element(id: "a")
element.find_element(xpath: "./..")
This code will help you to verify the element html
p element.find_element(xpath: "./..").attribute("innerHTML")
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I'm trying to access a certain element from by using XML but I just can't seem to get it, and I don't understand quite why.
<ul class="test1" id="content">
<li class="list">
<p>Insert random text here</p>
<div class="author">
</div>
</li>
<li class="list">
<p>I need this text here</p>
</li>
</ul>
Basically the text I want is the second one but I want/need to use something similar to p[not(div)] as to retrieve it.
I have tried the methods from the following link but to no avail (xpath find node that does not contain child)
Here is how I tried accessing the text:
ul[contains(#id,"content")]//p[not(.//div)]/text()
If you have any possible answers, thank you !
The HTML snippet posted in question shows that both p elements do not contain any div, so the expression //p[not(.//div)] would match both p. The first p element is sibling of the div (both shares the same parent element li) instead of parent or ancestor. The following XPath expression would match text nodes from the 2nd p and not those from the first one:
//ul[contains(#id,"content")]/li[not(div)]/p/text()
Brief explanation:
//ul[contains(#id,"content")]: find ul elements where id attribute value contains text "content"
/li[not(div)]: from such ul find child elements li that don't have child element div. This will match only the end li in the example HTML
/p/text(): from such li, find child elements p and then return child text nodes form such p
Given html:
<div class="class1">
<div class="class2">1 2 3</div>
<div class="class3">a b c</div>
</div>
As i have several div elements in my html which uses the class "class1" and none has a id i want to find/fetch this parent element by the text of its children.
I tried different variants like
By.xpath("//div[contains(#class, 'class1') "
+ "and text()[contains(.,'1 2 3')] "
+ "and text()[contains(.,'a b c')]]"));
but nothing seems to work yet.
In the example above i guess the text of the class1 element is checked but not of its children.
Can anybody help?
So you're looking for a div with class class1 that has children with texts 1 2 3 and a b c. From your example of what you've tried, I'm assuming there are no further conditions (eg class) on the children:
//div[#class='class1' and div/text()='1 2 3' and div/text()='a b c']
You can make those children node names into * if you don't care whether they are divs or not. You can make the children node names prefixed by descendant:: if you don't require them to be direct children.
Try any of these below mentioned xpath.
Using class attribute of <div> tag.
//div[#class='class2']/..//div[#class='class3']/..//parent::div[#class='class1']
Explanation of xpath: First locate both child elements using the class attribute of <div> tag and then move ahead with parent keyword with <div> tag along with class attribute.
OR
Using text method along with <div> tag.
//div[text()= '1 2 3']/..//div[text()= 'a b c']/..//parent::div[#class='class1']
Explanation of xpath: First locate both child elements using the text method of <div> tag and then move ahead with parent keyword with <div> tag along with class attribute.
These above xpath will locate your parent element <div class="class1">
I am trying to use Selenium. The problem is the following:
The doc structure:
<div class="jsSkills oSkills">
<a class="oTag oTagSmall oSkill" href="/contractors/skill/software-testing/" data-contractor="749244">software-testing</a>
<a class="oTag oTagSmall oSkill" href="/contractors/skill/software-qa-testing/" data-contractor="749244">software-qa-testing</a>
<a class="oTag oTagSmall oSkill" href="/contractors/skill/blog-writing/" data-contractor="749244">blog-writing</a>
</div>
I need to obtain all a's text to be in array like:
{"software-testing", "software-qa-testing", "blog-writing"}
I tried this:
contrSkill = driver.find_element(:xpath, "//div[contains(#class, 'jsSkills')]").text
puts contrSkill
but got this:
"software-testingsoftware-qa-testingblog-writing"
Please explain how to appropriately make an array.
You should get all of the link elements you want (using find_elements). Then you can iterate over each link and collect its text into an array (Ruby has a collect method that helps with this).
# Get all of the link elements within the div
skill_links = driver.find_elements(:xpath, "//div[contains(#class, 'jsSkills')]/a")
# Create an array of the text of each link
skill_text_array = skill_links.collect(&:text)
p skill_text_array
#=> ["software-testing", "software-qa-testing", "blog-writing"]
What is the best way to to select this element using Selenium WebDriver?
I am trying to access the <span> element through the class mapResultNumber. This is the actual HTML:
<div class="mapResultInner">
<div class="mapResultNumber">
<span>4</span>
</div>
You could use xpath = //div[#class='mapResultNumber']/span
Using a css selector is a more readable way:
element = #driver.find_element(:css => "div.mapResultNumber span")
A dot (period) after a tag indicates the class to select.
A single space after the first selector (i.e. "div.mapResultNumber") indicates the next tag will be found inside the previous
You could also use div.mapResultNumber > span to indicate that the span tag is found directly beneath the div
I am doing a search, and then attempting to click on the name returned from the search result
If i do a search for Bond, the below is the result I will see on the page
<li class = "resultsItem " data-index ="0">
<div class = "name" data-cid ="d182a061-1afd-4924-b256-035d7e6f34ec" onclick="return true;">
Bond, James </div>
<a class = "ir icon emailAction" href="mailto:jamesbond#mi6#.com"1</a>
</li>
I tried using the following with selenium webdriver in Ruby
element = driver.find_element(:name, "Bond, James")
element = driver.find_element(:text, "Bond, James")
element = driver.find_element(:data-cid, "d182a061-1afd-4924-b256-035d7e6f34ec")
I didn't think name, or text would work. I didn't like data-cid but was hoping that would work.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Jeff
After playing around with it for ahwile, I was able to get things working with the code blow
element = driver.find_elements (:xpath, "//li #class='resultsItem ']/div")
for item in element
if item.text() == "Bond, James" then
item.click
end
end
Thanks,
Jeff