I'm not able to identify the identifier under the span. I tried capturing using cypress studio also. Nothing captured
Full x-path is like this
/html/body/div[1]/div/div[2]/div/div[3]/div/div[3]/div/div[1]/div/h4/span
unique identifier
class="logic_component_text">LunchMenu
I'm new to cypress. Any inputs highly appreciated.
You can access the element below if you hide the element using invoke and at the end of the case you will have such a DOM state in the cypress UI that you will be able to select and extract the element indentifier
cy.get('.logic_component_text').invoke('hide').should('not.be.visible')
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I have a set of tabs with proper roles and attributes for accessibility support. The content that tab controls gets loaded in via ajax. But each wrapper for the content loaded in also has proper tab pane roles and attributes.
The problem is, when I run an automated audit using Chrome Accessibility Tools, the test fails stating that the corresponding ID of the tab pane is missing for all of the tabs except the one that's currently active (because that wrapper with ID has been loaded). The exact error states: "ARIA attributes which refer to other elements by ID should refer to elements which exist in the DOM."
Since the ID will exist once the tab with the corresponding aria-controls attribute is active, is this really an error? Or is this just a case of a false positive because it's an automated test and they can only do so much.
In summary, What does aria-controls do and does it really need to refer to an ID that currently exists in the DOM?
aria-controls give your assisting technology a way to move to the controlled element.
If this element is not in the DOM or can't be accessed, then yes it's an error.
The two (the element with aria-controls as well the element with the referenced id) must exist at the same time, whether at page render or via JS injection.
The DOM is parsed by the UA/AT combo before the user even gets to the control or your script fires to make it exist. If you use JS injection then you need to make sure the DOM is re-parsed.
This would apply to aria-owns as well.
I don't know whether the following would work in your architecture, but it would solve the error problem:
Design the tabs so they are all in the page at the time it loads. Format those that should not be shown to be outside the viewport using absolute positioning and something like "left: -99em." Use AJAX to reset the positioning when the time has come to display the tabs. The result is that the ARIA ID dependencies will always be valid because the tabs are always part of the DOM.
I'm trying to click on "Mr" from the drop down list I've tried a combination of things but non of them seem to work.
I've even tried xpath which is usually reliable but for this case its failing.
$browser.element(:xpath, "/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/form/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/ul/li[2]/a").click
The XPath suggested by Saurabh Gaur, can be written in a more readable Watir-like fashion using:
$browser.ul(class: 'dropdown-menu').link(text: 'Mr').click
Note that this assumes that there is only one ul element with class dropdown-menu. If there are multiple, you will need to scope the search to the specific dropdown using an element that likely exists higher in the DOM.
However, given there is likely only one link with text "Mr", you can probably get away with simply:
$browser.link(text: 'Mr').click
Given the link is a dialog that switches from hidden to visible, you may need to also wait:
$browser.link(text: 'Mr').when_present.click
Your xPath is positional which depends on element position.. it will not work if elements are change their position means adding some elements after some action on the page.
After seeing your attached image I have generated following xPath as below :-
//ul[contains(#class, 'dropdown-menu')]/descendant::span[contains(.,'Mr')]/parent::a
Try with this xPath.. May be it will work...:)
I am facing issue in selecting a particular drop down from the webpage.
I need to select the second highlighted div tag in the image above.
The xpath that I am trying to use is:
//div[#class='page-container']//table//div[#class='ui-multiselect-selected-container']
Kindly suggest how can I edit the xpath to select the second div tag.
I am new to xpaths and any help will be appreciated.
I think the below xpath should work to locate the second instance
(//div[#class='ui-multiselect-selected-container'])[2]
The second row has a tr class. When you use //div[#class='page-container']//table//div[#class='ui-multiselect-selected-container'] since your are referring to relative div(using //) it points to 1st element found by default.
I see that the tr element for the second multiselect has a class attribute, which makes unique
so, this will be //div[#class='page-container']//table//tr[#class='rowRelativeTo']//div[#class='ui-multiselect-selected-container']
You can also use the style elements which are unique:
//div[#class='page-container']//table//tr[#class='rowRelativeTo']//div[#style='float:right'] /div[#class='ui-multiselect-selected-container']
Can someone tell me why im not able to access the "select" xpath? I'm getting "No such element exist" error. The website link is: https://www2.fdic.gov/sdi/main3.asp?cert=26486&repdte=MostCurrent. I'm using selenium webdriver.
select=driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/form/table[2]/tbody/tr/td[2]/table/tbody/tr/td/select')
Try
select=driver.findElement(By.xpath('//form/table[2]/tbody/tr/td[2]/table/tbody/tr/td/select'))
In the beginning of xpath you use '//' and not need 'html/body'
I agree with #Marc B above. The select element is inside a frame, hence unless you switch to the frame, your code won't work.
1- First, Switch to frame using the below code (multiple ways are there, this is one of them):
driver.switch_to_frame("content") //Found that the select tag is under frame with name "content"
2- Then, use your code or the code below for the select element:
select=driver.find_element_by_xpath('//select[#name='selColumnType2']')
3- After your task with the frame is over, use the below code to switch back to main window and proceed further:
driver.switch_to_default_content()
My application under test has been developed by external suppliers so I have no control over the HTML structure. The application is extremely Javascript and Ajax heavy, with numerous dynamically generated buttons and auto-complete lists.
In other words, the characteristics of the pages are that they are filled with:
Elements with no fixed IDs (IDs are generated on the fly and have
numbers or other text dynamically added to them)
The same happens with some classes
Most of the times the buttons have no text associated with them since they are either custom coded 'down' arrows for lookup lists
(which aren't lookup lists but hidden divs) or '+' and '-' icons to
maximise or minimise portions of the content. -
It is therefore very difficult to identify these elements, especially the buttons.
I am trying to write a generic 'I click on the button near y' type of step so that it is not necessary to hardcode each and every button (assuming I can even get something to identify them with) into each and every test.
The thinking behind this is that normally there is a label of some sort close to the button at least.
What I want to to is to find the text label, then see if there is a button inside the same scope, and if there is not, move 'back' through the parent elements, and check if there is a button inside the scope of each parent level, up to 5 parents.
There might be all sorts of problems with this approach but I am just curious to see if this will work in general. I have run into some problems.
First I tried to use Xpaths, so I got the Xpath of the parent through :
$parentelement = $element->getParent();
$parentXpath->getXpath();
This would give me an Xpath of : (//html//span[text()='Cost center'])[1] and moving up through the parent elements all the time, they would become successively:
(//html//span[text()='Cost center'])[1]/..[1]
(//html//span[text()='Cost center'])[1]/..[1]/..[1]
and so forth.
The actual button is located in: (//html//span[text()='Cost center'])[1]/..[1]/..[1]//button but it has to go through all the parent elements in order to get there, so it will start with (//html//span[text()='Cost center'])[1]//button and should end with (//html//span[text()='Cost center'])[1]/..[1]/..[1]//button where it should find the button.
Trying to use Xpath I used:
$button_element = $session->getPage()->find('xpath',$parentXpath."//button")
I soon saw that the 'find' command appends an //html to the front of your xpath string so the Xpath that it tried to use ended up being (for each parent Xpath, but using this one as an example):
(//html(//html//span[text()='Cost center'])[1]/..[1])
I then stripped out the brackets as well as the //html, leaving me with:
//span[text()='Cost center'][1]/..[1]
but when I tried:
$button_element = $session->getPage()->find('xpath',$strippedParentXpath."//button")
I got the following error:
SyntaxError: Failed to execute 'evaluate' on 'Document': The string '(//html//span[text()='Cost center'][1]/..[1]//button)[1]' is not a valid XPath expression
However, Firepath can execute this expression and does not show a syntax error for it, although it does not find the actual button (since the button is actually located one level up, where Firepath DOES find it).
So my question 1 is: What is wrong with my Xpath that I can't use it in the find? It actually looks as if //span[text()='Cost center'][1]//button does not throw the same exception, since as I said, I am looping through the parent Xpaths, and it starts with //span[text()='Cost center'][1]//button. It crashes on //span[text()='Cost center'][1]/..[1]//button.
My second option was to get the parent element each time, starting with finding the text on the page, but then to search for a button inside the scope of the parent element using the findbutton functionality.
Looping through the parent elements (up to a maximum of 5):
$parentelement = $parentelement->getParent();
$butonelement = $parentelement->findbutton('xxx');
In other words, find ANY button in the scope of the parent element. The problem I have is how to specify a generic 'button'.
One has to associate SOME text with the button (depicted by the 'xxx' above).
But this is a typical example of buttons in the application:
<button class="autocomplete_button" type="button" id="button_OM_1"> </button>
Where the class is used more than once, and the ID is auto-generated and not the same number all the time. There is no text associated with the button since the class specifies an image.
Question 2: So how can I use 'findbutton' to generically find a 'button' no specific distinguishing characteristics? Please note that I actually did try findbutton("button"), taking the chance that there might be a 'button' somewhere in a button, but this did not work either. At least, it doesn't work consistently and by that I mean that the same test randomly seems to either find or not find the same button when I run the test a couple of times.
After doing some more investigation on this issue I have found the following:
My method of trying to find the closest button to a piece of text via traversing 'up' through the scope of the divs and spans around the text (using xpath) is actually working.
What is NOT working is SAHI, which I am using as the web driver. In other words, it is not a Behat/Mink problem, it is SAHI specific issue.
I tried the same code using Selenium2 and it executes perfectly.
I still require an answer to question 2 - how can I use findbutton() without a specific parameter such as the ID, name or value but I will see if I can find an answer to that question separately and on the Behat user group since I do think that is a Behat/Mink specific issue.
I normaly use css selector and with that, I use to navigate to the class and ID's that the button is inside. it is easier than xpath I think, like you can use
$this->getSession ()->getPage ()->find ( 'css', '.parrent1 .parrent2 .autocomplete_button ' );
I think this will help you as you know which button your gonna use in each scenario