I am trying to get xpath for following html code, but nothing seems to be working. I appreciate your suggestion. I need to get the xpath based on text.
<label class="label" securityidpath="ACCOUNTS_FS.PART_ACCOUNT_HEADER_FS.PART_ACCOUNT_STATUS" title="Part Account Status">Part Account Status:
</label>
FYI, I tried following variant xpath
//label[normalize-space(text())='Part Account Status:\u00a0']
//label[normalize-space(text())='Part Account Status:\u000a']
//label[normalize-space(text())='Part Account Status:\u202f']
and all the options as per following url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character
Thank You,
Yougander
You can use
/label[normalize-space(text())='Part Account Status: ']
Or use the hexadecimal variant instead of the decimal .
Also note that XPath uses slashes (and not backslashes) to define paths, so referencing the root node label would be done by /label.
The typo lable instead of label is trivial.
BTW you can avoid the trouble with the entity by using the title attribute in your XPath:
label[normalize-space(#title)='Part Account Status']
your element name is wrong and change UTF character name as HexaDecimal entity values:
//label[normalize-space(text())='Part Account Status: ']
XPATH require forward slash
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I am trying to setup a Telegram Instant View for a website.
this website has a lot of empty tags that i don't know how to remove them.
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
i want to find a way to remove and get rid of these kind of tags
If you want to remove just use #replace function:
#replace("\u00a0", ""): //nodes/text()
If you want to remove tags with spaces, call #remove and pass a predicate, that selects empty nodes after space normalization.
#remove: //nodes[not( normalize-space(text()) )]
I found it Ehasn:
First replace all " " content with sample string like "null-tag" the remove them using this code:
#replace("\u00a0", "null-tag"): //p
#remove: //p[.="null-tag"]
Note that it might change some contents check some pages to make sure it work fine for you.
I have a site I need to login to but one of the input text fields id and name change each time. Is there a way to access element via a regex? Thanks in advance.
Example:
id="form:wrap:j_idt1297:0:j_idt1298:input"
id="form:wrap:j_idt2151:0:j_idt2152:input"
<input class="iceInpSecrt large"
id="form:wrap:j_idt1297:0:j_idt1298:input"
name="form:wrap:j_idt1297:0:j_idt1298:input"
onblur="setFocus('');" onfocus="setFocus(this.id);"
onkeyup="iceSubmit(form,this,event);"
onmousedown="this.focus();" tabindex="" type="password" value="">
Yes, you can match elements using regular expressions. It is similar to locating the id/name by string.
It looks like:
browser.text_field(:id => /a_regex/)
For your example, the following would locate the text field with either of the ids mentioned:
browser.text_field(:id => /form:wrap:j_idt\d{4}:0:j_idt\d{4}:input/)
Note:
You will need to verify that this regex will not end up also matching other elements on the page. If it does, you will need to make your search more specific by using other information about the element (perhaps the class) or information around the element (perhaps the field's label).
Depending on the other elements on the page, this regex might be more specific than you need. For example, perhaps just the first part is unique. In that case you could just do /form:wrap:j_idt/.
following is my html table structure and i want to validate the complete text inside td using x-path <tr><td>Sagar Nair<br/><b>Owner</b> - Verified</td></tr>
can anyone help for this.
When the tr element in your example is the current element, then the XPath expression string(.) will have as its value the string you say you would like to validate. For the actual validation of the string you are going to need some language other than XPath; since you don't mention a programming language, however, I assume that once you get the string you know what to do with it.
I'm trying to parse a webpage to get posts from a forum.
The start of each message starts with the following format
<div id="post_message_somenumber">
and I only want to get the first one
I tried xpath='//div[starts-with(#id, '"post_message_')]' in yql without success
I'm still learning this, anyone have suggestions
I think I have a solution that does not require dealing with namespaces.
Here is one that selects all matching div's:
//div[#id[starts-with(.,"post_message")]]
But you said you wanted just the "first one" (I assume you mean the first "hit" in the whole page?). Here is a slight modification that selects just the first matching result:
(//div[#id[starts-with(.,"post_message")]])[1]
These use the dot to represent the id's value within the starts-with() function. You may have to escape special characters in your language.
It works great for me in PowerShell:
# Load a sample xml document
$xml = [xml]'<root><div id="post_message_somenumber"/><div id="not_post_message"/><div id="post_message_somenumber2"/></root>'
# Run the xpath selection of all matching div's
$xml.selectnodes('//div[#id[starts-with(.,"post_message")]]')
Result:
id
--
post_message_somenumber
post_message_somenumber2
Or, for just the first match:
# Run the xpath selection of the first matching div
$xml.selectnodes('(//div[#id[starts-with(.,"post_message")]])[1]')
Result:
id
--
post_message_somenumber
I tried xpath='//div[starts-with(#id,
'"post_message_')]' in yql without
success I'm still learning this,
anyone have suggestions
If the problem isn't due to the many nested apostrophes and the unclosed double-quote, then the most likely cause (we can only guess without being shown the XML document) is that a default namespace is used.
Specifying names of elements that are in a default namespace is the most FAQ in XPath. If you search for "XPath default namespace" in SO or on the internet, you'll find many sources with the correct solution.
Generally, a special method must be called that binds a prefix (say "x:") to the default namespace. Then, in the XPath expression every element name "someName" must be replaced by "x:someName.
Here is a good answer how to do this in C#.
Read the documentation of your language/xpath-engine how something similar should be done in your specific environment.
#FindBy(xpath = "//div[starts-with(#id,'expiredUserDetails') and contains(text(), 'Details')]")
private WebElementFacade ListOfExpiredUsersDetails;
This one gives a list of all elements on the page that share an ID of expiredUserDetails and also contains the text or the element Details
I have such content of html file:
<a class="bf" title="Link to book" href="/book/229920/">book name</a>
Help me to construct xpath expression to get link text (book name).
I try to use /a, but expression evaluates without results.
If the context is the entire document you should probably use // instead of /. Also you may (not sure about that) need to get down one more level to retrieve the text.
I think it should look like this
//a/text()
EDIT: As Tomalak pointed out it's text() not text
Have you tried
//a
?
More specific is better:
//a[#class='bf' and starts-with(#href, '/book/')]
Note that this selects the <a> element. In your host environment it's easy to extract the text value of that node via standard DOM methods (like the .textContent property).
To select the actual text node, see the other answers in this thread.
It depends also on the rest of your document. If you use // in the beginning all the matching nodes will be returned, which might be too many results in case you have other links in your document.
Apart from that a possible xpath expression is //a/text().
The /a you tried only returns the a-tag itself, if it is the root element. To get the link text you need to append the /text() part.