I am trying to write an xpath expression that selects all div tags that have an attribute id that start with CompanyCalendar. Below is a snippet of the HTML that I am looking at:
<td class="some class" align="center" onclick="Calendar_DayClicked(this,'EventCont','Event');">
<span class="Text"></span>
<div id="CompanyCalendar02.21" class="Pop CalendarClick" style="right: 200px; top: 235px;"></div>
There are multiple divs that have an id like CompanyCalendar02.21 but for each new month in the calendar, they change the id. For example, the next month would be CompanyCalendar02.22. I would like to be able to select all of the divs that are equal to CompanyCalendar*
I am rather new at this so I was using some example off the net to try and get my xpath expression to work but to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am trying to write an xpath expression that selects all div tags that have an attribute id that start with CompanyCalendar.
The following expression is perhaps what you are looking for:
//div[starts-with(#id,'CompanyCalendar')]
What it does, in plain English, is
Return all div elements in the XML document that have an attribute id whose attribute value starts with "CompanyCalendar".
While checking in Browser console with the $x() call, it worked only after flipping the quotes - i.e. double quotes inside the Xpath starts-with() call.
$x('//div[starts-with(#id,"CompanyCalendar")]')
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I have this piece of HTML and I'm trying to select the <a href> link using xpath.
<li class="footable-page-nav" data-page="next" aria-label="next"><a class="footable-page-link xh-highlight" href="#">›</a></li>
I need the selector to be reasonably specific since "footable-page-link" exists in multiple places in the HTML.
I've tried this:
//li[#class='footable-page-nav']/a[#class='xh-highlight']//#href
Selenium throws an error: selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException
If I shorten the xpath expression to //li[#class='footable-page-nav'] just to see if I'm on the right track then I get
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable: element has zero size
What am I missing?
Try changing your xpath expression to
//li[#class='footable-page-nav']/a[contains(#class,'xh-highlight')]//#href
and see if it works.
Is there a way to select the xpath which doesn't contain ng-show
Please find the xpath below:
I'm familiar with not(contains()), but it has 2 parameters.
I would like it to not contain the ng-showitself, because I have a few more element containing ng-show and I don't want to select any of them.
<span ng-show="displayValue" class="ng-binding">0 km</span>
Thanks in Advance
Try this below xpath
//span[not(#ng-show)][not(#class='percent ng-binding')][#class='ng-binding']
Explanation of xpath:- Only those <span> tag will return, which attribute does not contains ng-show
I have this html code , trying many times to get the pure xpath for text "sample text" then "author" text in separate xpath and i don't find any criteria for that!!!
<div class="Text">
“sample article here with quotation marks .”
<br/>
―
Author
so please help , it make me mad!!
thanks
The first part you can get by getting the div by class, get br inside and retrieve the preceding-sibling's text:
//div[#class="Text"]/br/preceding-sibling::text()
The second part is easier, just get the text of a tag inside the div:
//div[#class="Text"]/a/text()
Using Selenium IDE, I'm trying to click a button within a table on a webpage using XPath with a partial id and a title from the element. The XPath I'm using is:
xpath=//*[contains(#id, 'ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell')]//*[contains(#title, 'Select Seat')]
and thats the entire html code for an example of the buttons im trying to click:
<li id="ctl00_MainContent_repAircraftMap_ctl20_repAircraftMapRow_ctl00_liAircraftMapCell" class="">
<a id="ctl00_MainContent_repAircraftMap_ctl20_repAircraftMapRow_ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell" href="javascript:void(0)" seatnumber="20A" mapbindattribute="1124" title="Select Seat 20A" onclick="SeatClick(1124);"></a>
</li>
Am I constructing this incorrectly? It's not working!
Now that you have provided your HTML sample, we're able to see that your XPath is slightly wrong. While it's valid XPath, it's logically wrong.
You've got:
//*[contains(#id, 'ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell')]//*[contains(#title, 'Select Seat')]
Which translates into:
Get me all the elements that have an ID that contains ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell. Out of these elements, get any child elements that have a title that contains Select Seat.
What you actually want is:
//a[contains(#id, 'ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell') and contains(#title, 'Select Seat')]
Which translates into:
Get me all the anchor elements that have both: an id that contains ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell and a title that contains Select Seat.
I have some html that looks pretty much like this.
<p>
<a img src="img src">
<strong>foo</strong>
<strong>bar</strong>
<strong>baz</strong>
<strong>eek</strong>
This is the text I want to select using xpath.
</p>
How can I select only this particular text node as indicated above using xpath?
How do I get at only this particular
text element in question using xpath?
Use:
/p/text()[last()]
"/p/text()" xpath expression will select the text from "p" node in above XML (Posted in question).
/p/text()[normalize-space()]
this will remove trailing spaces from string. This xpath produces exactly what you want.
There is very good tutorial at http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/