I want to extract data from a div element with the attribute 'display:none'.
<div class='test' style='display:none;'>
<div id='test2'>data</div>
</div>
Here is what I tried:
//div[#class = "test"]//div[contains(#style, \'display:none\')';
Please help.
Try several changes:
1) Just put normal quotes around "display:none", like you did for your class attribute and close with ]
2) Then your div with class test and your style attribute is one and the same, so you need to call contains also for the same div:
'//div[#class = "test" and contains(#style, "display:none")]'
or the quotes the other way around, important is, that you are using differnt quotes around the expression than inside the expression
"//div[#class = 'test' and contains(#style, 'display:none')]"
if this still does not work, pls post an error message
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This may be an easy question, I'm new to this.
I'm trying to get the data within this div
<div class="search-results-listings
" vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="SearchResultsPage">
response.xpath("//div[#class='search-results-listings\n']")
and
response.xpath("//div[#class='search-results-listings\n ']")
are returning empty arrays
You can use XPath's contains:
response.xpath("//div[contains(#class, 'search-results-listings')]")
suppose I have this structure:
<div class="a" attribute="foo">
<div class="b">
<span>Text Example</span>
</div>
</div>
In xpath, I would like to retrieve the value of the attribute "attribute" given I have the text inside: Text Example
If I use this xpath:
.//*[#class='a']//*[text()='Text Example']
It returns the element span, but I need the div.a, because I need to get the value of the attribute through Selenium WebDriver
Hey there are lot of ways by which you can figure it out.
So lets say Text Example is given, you can identify it using this text:-
//span[text()='Text Example']/../.. --> If you know its 2 level up
OR
//span[text()='Text Example']/ancestor::div[#class='a'] --> If you don't know how many level up this `div` is
Above 2 xpaths can be used if you only want to identify the element using Text Example, if you don't want to iterate through this text. There are simple ways to identify it directly:-
//div[#class='a']
From your question itself you have mentioned the answer for it
but I need the div.a,
try this
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.a")).getAttribute("attribute");
use cssSelector for best result.
or else try the following xpath
//div[contains(#class, 'a')]
If you want attribute of div.a with it's descendant span which contains text something, try as below :-
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#class = 'a' and descendant::span[text() = 'Text Example']]")).getAttribute("attribute");
Hope it helps..:)
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
<div id="ctl00_ContentHolder_vs_ValidationSummary" class="errorblock">
<p><strong>The following errors were found:</strong></p>
<ul><input type="hidden" Name="SummaryErrorCmsIds" Value="E024|E012|E014" />
<li>Please select a title.</li>
<li>Please key in your first name.</li>
<li>Please key in your last name.</li>
</ul>
</div>
here is my snippet for example. i want to get the value of ID i.e., ct100_contentHolder_vs_ValidationSummary. using selenium web driver. h
You can try this :
String id=driver.findElementByXpath("//div[#class='errorblock']").getAttribute("id"));
But in this case the class of this division should be unique.
Use following code to extract id of first div:
WebElement div = driver.findElement(By.tagName("div"));
div.getAttribute("id");
This is the code for all div available on the page:
List<WebElement> div = driver.findElements(By.tagName("div"));
for ( WebElement e : div ) {
div.getAttribute("id");
}
I know this answer is really late but I wanted to put this here for those who come later. Searching by XPath should be avoided unless absolutely necessary because it is more complicated, more error prone, and slower. In this case you can easily do what the accepted answer did without having to use XPaths:
String id = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.errorblock")).getAttribute("id");
Some explanation... this line finds the first element (.findElement vs .findElements) using a CSS Selector. The CSS Selector, div.errorblock, locates all div elements with the class (symbolized by the period .) errorblock. Once it is located, we get the ID using .getAttribute().
CSS Selectors are a great tool that all automators should have in their toolbox. There's a great CSS Selector reference here: http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors/#selectors.
I'm a little new to xpath and I was wondering if you anyone can help me understand what's wrong with the following xpath query. The server is telling me I have an "invalid predicate"
Here's the xpath:
xpath("div[span[#class='paragraphnumber]/text()='$next_pn']/#id")
I want this to find the #id of the div which contains within it a span element with the #class of "paragraphnumber" and the text which equals the number contained in the variable $next_pn. The div would look something like this:
<div id="pl8ddjkdj"><span class="paragraphnumber">3</span>lor ipsum etc etc</div>
Basically, I'm starting with the number I want to be able to find the unique id of this div.
Thanks for your help.
You have just missed a single quote (') after the name of the class paragraphnumber.
This:
xpath("div[span[#class='paragraphnumber]/text()='$next_pn']/#id")
should be
// v
xpath("div[span[#class='paragraphnumber']/text()='$next_pn']/#id")