I have a scenario where i am filling a search field with text 'A' and it returns a bunch of results. These results are always changing and i simply want to select the first 5 options. How is it possible to write an Xpath for this. I am trying to write an acceptance test using codecption
.//*[#id='js_search_table_filter'] - is the search table filter. I enter A with this below
$this->fillField($_sSelectSearchXPath,"A");
The xpath element when i click on the tick box option for the search results are like
.//*[#id='assign-9488'].
<label class="checkbox checked" for="assign-9488">
Note that the numbers vary and they are not in any chronological order.
I'm not sure if this is what you're after, but if you need the first 5 elements of a nodeset, you can suffix it with:
[position() <= 5]
Example:
<a>
<b>1</b>
<c>2</c>
<d>3</d>
<e>4</e>
<f>5</f>
<g>6</g>
</a>
If you want to get elements from b to f, you can run /a/*[position() <= 5].
I am not sure how codeception/php version works but in ruby (watir or pageobjectgem) you can identify all elements with a reqular expression or a partial match
the element would look like:
checkboxes(:your_element_name, :id => /assign/)
Notice the difference between checkbox and checkboxes which returns all checkboxes which have id containing assign.
In Java Webdriver, you have
driver.findElements(By.xpath("//checkbox[contains(#id,'assign')]"));
Both representatinos (ruby and java) return an array of elements where the Java solution is using xpath. The element you mentioned is a label, if you are looking for the checkbox, it is possibly a child element of this label and the xpath will be
//label[contains(#for,'assign')]/checkbox
Basically, you can use "contains" method in xpath to identify your element. You can then take the first five elements of the array.
I used this guys and tried to select all the tickboxes in the dropdown
(.//*[#type='checkbox'])[1]
Related
I am trying to find XPath of an element which has no attribute. It can only be identified by its parent's attribute. However, the parent also does not have unique attribute.
Eg: //*[#id="btn"][1]/ul/li[2]/a/span
Here there are 2 elements with id=btn. How do i get the 2nd element. The above syntax gives me 1st element.. However if i use:
//*[#id="btn"][2]/ul/li[2]/a/span
I get an error message
"The xpath expression '//*[#id="btn"][2]/ul/li[2]/a/span' cannot be evaluated or does not result in a WebElement "
Try this, you select those two first, then use brackets around and index them.
(//*[#id="btn"]/ul/li[2]/a/span)[2]
By the way, it's not a good practice to have multiple elements sharing same ids, if you are the developer, may consider change them.
I have a very poorly coded JSP that I am trying to run automation on. There are a series of checkboxes with names (no IDs) of "delete[x]" where X is the item number of the item populated. I am trying to select all the checkboxes so I can delete every entry. Here is what I have
check_boxes = []
check_boxes.push(#browser.checkbox(:xpath, "//input[contains(#name,'delete')]"))
puts check_boxes.size
check_boxes.each do |check_box|
check_box.set
The problem with this is it only selects the first instance (node) that matches the xpath to dump into the array. I know I can iterate through the xpath adding an index to the node, and then put a rescue in that drops me out when the index goes out of bounds, but that seems like the dirty way to do it.
I know there is an "as" tag that gets a set of anchors and i was wondering if there was a method like that for taking the whole selection of checkboxes
I don't think the problem is the xpath itself. It is the #browser.checkbox that is causing only the first checkbox to be returned.
If you want all matching checkboxes, you should use (notice the plural):
#browser.checkboxes
Note that checkboxes returns a collection of checkboxes. Unless you are doing something really fancy, you usually do not need to convert it to an array.
You can simply do:
#browser.checkboxes(:name => /delete/).each do |checkbox|
checkbox.set
end
I am trying to automate some tests using selenium webdriver. I am dealing with a third-party login provider (OAuth) who is using duplicate id's in their html. As a result I cannot "find" the input fields correctly. When I just select on an id, I get the wrong one.
This question has already been answered for JQuery. But I would like an answer (I am presuming using Xpath) that will work in Selenium webdriver.
On other questions about this issue, answers typically say "you should not have duplicate id's in html". Preaching to the choir there. I am not in control of the webpage in question. If it was, I would use class and id properly and just fix the problem that way.
Since I cannot do that. What options do I get with xpath etc?
you can do it by driver.find_element_by_id, for example ur duplicate "duplicate_ID" is inside "div_ID" wich is unique :
driver.find_element_by_id("div_ID").find_element_by_id("duplicate_id")
for other duplicate id under another div :
driver.find_element_by_id("div_ID2").find_element_by_id("duplicate_id")
This XPath expression:
//div[#id='something']
selects all div elements in the XML document, the string value of whose id attribute is the string "something".
This Xpath expression:
count(//div[#id='something'])
produces the number of the div elements selected by the first XPath expression.
And this XPath expression:
(//div[#id='something'])[3]
selects the third (in document order) div element that is selected by the first XPath expression above.
Generally:
(//div[#id='something'])[$k]
selects the $k-th such div element ($k must be substituted with a positive integer).
Equipped with this knowledge, one can get any specific div whose id attribute has string value "something".
Which language are you working on? Dublicate id's shouldn't be a problem as you can virtually grab any attribute not just the id tag using xpath. The syntax will differ slightly in other languages (let me know if you want something else than Ruby) but this is how you do it:
driver.find_element(:xpath, "//input[#id='loginid']"
The way you go about constructing the xpath locator is the following:
From the html code you can pick any attribute:
<input id="gbqfq" class="gbqfif" type="text" value="" autocomplete="off" name="q">
Let's say for example that you want to consturct your xpath with the html code above (Google's search box) using name attribute. Your xpath will be:
driver.find_element(:xpath, "//input[#name='q']"
In other words when the id's are the same just grab another attribute available!
Improvement:
To avoid fragile xpath locators such as order in the XML document (which can change easily) you can use something even more robust. Two xpath locators instead of one. This can also be useful when dealing with hmtl tags that are really similar. You can locate an element by 2 of its attributes like this:
driver.find_element(:id, 'amount') and driver.find_element(xpath: "//input[#maxlength='50']")
or in pure xpath one liner if you prefer:
//input[#id="amount" and #maxlength='50']
Alternatively (and provided your xpath will only return one unique element) you can move one more step higher in the abstraction level; completely omitting the attribute values:
//input[#id and #maxlength]
It's not listed at http://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/locating-elements.html but I'm able access a method find_elements_by_id
This returns a list of all elements with the duplicate ID.
links = browser.find_elements_by_id("link")
for link in links:
print(link.get_attribute("href"))
you should use driver.findElement(By.xpath() but while locating element with firebug you should select absolute path for particular element instead of getting relative path this is how you will get the element even with duplicate ID's
I have those two RxPaths which I need to be written in one expresion:
/td[2]/a[1]/tag[1]
and
/td[2]/a[1]
So basically I need to select path with 'tag' element if exists, if not than to select 'a' element.
something like:
if exist /td[2]/a[1]/tag[1] select /td[2]/a[1]/tag[1]
else select /td[2]/a[1]
Those elements need to have innertext attribute with some value in them, so I tried:
/td[2]/descendant::node()[#innertext!='']
but it won't work...
Also those elements are at the bottom of hierarchy so if is there any way to just select first element at lowest level.
I managed to solve this with an regex at the end of my Xpath expression.
/dom/body/div[#id='isc_0']/div/div[#id='isc_B']/div[#id='isc_C']/div[#id='isc_10']/div/div/iframe/body/table/tbody/tr/td[1]/a[#innertext='any uri item']/../../td[2]/*[#innertext~'[^ ]+']
Sorry for misunderstanding with problem...
Regards,
Vajda Vladimir
So basically I need to select path
with 'tag' element if exists, if not
than to select 'a' element. something
like:
if exist
/td[2]/a[1]/tag[1]
select
/td[2]/a[1]/tag[1]
else select
/td[2]/a[1]
I highly doubt that the top element of the document is a td. Don't use /td -- it means you want to select the top element of the document and this top element must be a td .
Also, /td[2] never selects anything, because a (wellformed) XML document has exactly one top element.
Use:
someParentElement/td[2]/a[1]/tag[1]
|
someParentElement/td[2]/a[1][not(someParentElement/td[2]/a[1]/tag[1])]
Those elements need to have innertext
attribute with some value in them
Use:
someParentElement/td[2][.//#innertext[normalize-space()]]/a[1]/tag[1]
|
someParentElement/td[2]
[.//#innertext[normalize-space()]]/a[1]
[not(someParentElement/td[2]
[.//#innertext[normalize-space()]]/a[1]/tag[1])]
Also those elements are at the bottom
of hierarchy so if is there any way to
just select first element at lowest
level.
This is not clear. Please, clarify.
All "leaf" elements can be selected using the following XPath expression:
//*[not(*)]
The elements selected don't have any children-elements, but may have other children (such as text-nodes, PIs, comments) and attributes.
Besides all those good advices from #Dimitre, I want to add that a parent will always come before (in document order) than a child, so you could use this XPath expression:
(/real-path-from-root/td[2]/a[1]
|
/real-path-from-root/td[2]/a[1]/tag[1])[last()]
You could do this without | union set operator in XPath 1.0, but it will end up very unreadable... Of course, in XPath 2.0 you could just do:
(/real-path-from-root/td[2]/a[1]/(.|tag[1]))[last()]
When there is more than a single element with the same locator in a page, how should the next elements be referenced?
Using Xpath locators it's possible to add array notation, e.g. xpath=(//span/div)[1]
But with simple locators?
For example, if there are 3 links identified by "link=Click Here", simply appending [3] won't get the 3rd element.
And where is the authoritative reference for addressing array of elements? I couldn't find any.
Selenium doesn't handle arrays of locators by itself. It just returns the first element that meets your query, so if you want to do that, you have to use xpath, dom or even better, css.
So for the link example you should use:
selenium.click("css=a:contains('Click Here'):nth-child(3)")
Santi is correct that Selenium returns the first element matching your specified locator and you have to apply the appropriate expression of the locator type you use. I thought it would be useful to give the details here, though, for in this case they do border on being "gory details":
CSS
The :nth-child pseudo-class is tricky to use; it has subtleties that are little-known and not clearly documented, even on the W3C pages. Consider a list such as this:
<ul>
<li class="bird">petrel</li>
<li class="mammal">platypus</li>
<li class="bird">albatross</li>
<li class="bird">shearwater</li>
</ul>
Then the selector css=li.bird:nth-child(3) returns the albatross element not the shearwater! The reason for this is that it uses your index (3) into the list of elements that are siblings of the first matching element--unfiltered by the .bird class! Once it has the correct element, in this example the third one, it then applies the bird class filter: if the element in hand matches, it returns it. If it does not, it fails to match.
Now consider the selector css=li.bird:nth-child(2). This starts with the second element--platypus--sees it is not a bird and comes up empty. This manifests as your code throwing a "not found" exception!
What might fit the typical mental model of finding an indexed entry is the CSS :nth-of-type pseudo-class which applies the filter before indexing. Unfortunately, this is not supported by Selenium, according to the official documentation on locators.
XPath
Your question already showed that you know how to do this in XPath. Add an array reference at any point in the expression with square brackets. You could, for example use something like this: //*[#id='abc']/div[3]/p[2]/span to find a span in the second paragraph under the 3rd div under the specified id.
DOM
DOM uses the same square bracket notation as XPath except that DOM indexes from zero while XPath indexes from 1: document.getElementsByTagName("div")[1] returns the second div, not the first div! DOM offers an alternate syntax as well: document.getElementsByTagName("div").item(0) is exactly equivalent. And note that with getElementsByTagName you always have to use an index since it returns a node set, not a single node.