I am trying to create an xpath expression that will find the first matching sibling 'down' the dom given an initial sibling (note: initial siblings will be Tom and Steve). For example, I want to find 'jerry1' under the 'Tom' tr. I have looked into the following-sibling argument, but I'm not sure that's the best approach for this? Any ideas?
<tr>
<a title=”Tom”/>
</tr>
<tr>
<a title=”jerry1”/>
</tr>
<tr>
<a title=”jerry2”/>
</tr>
<tr>
<a title=”jerry3”/>
</tr>
<tr>
<a title=”Steve”/>
</tr>
<tr>
<a title=”jerry1”/>
</tr>
<tr>
<a title=”jerry2”/>
</tr>
<tr>
<a title=”jerry3”/>
</tr>
following-sibling will work. This will select the a node with the title "jerry1":
//a[#title='Tom']/../following-sibling::tr/a
The /.. traverses up to Tom's parent <tr>, then following-sibling to the next <tr>, then finally the <a> node within that.
Following XPath worked for me:
(//a[#title='Tom']/parent::*/following-sibling::tr/a[#title= 'jerry1'])[1]
First matching a with title jerry1 following a tr with an a-child with title Tom.
Starting at a[#title='Tom'], going to the parent tr with /parent , selecting all following sibling tr-nodes with ::*/following-sibling::tr, that have an /a[#title= 'jerry1'] as child node. Because this would select 2 jerry1-nodes and the first jerry1 following Tom is searched, selecting the first one by wrapping the XPath with () and choosing the first match with [1].
The following XPath statement finds the first tr element that has an a with the #title "jerry1" that is a following-sibling of the tr element that has an a with the #title of "Tom"
//tr[a/#title='Tom']/following-sibling::tr[a/#title='jerry1'][1]
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Desired output: 3333
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="name">
<p class="desc">Intel</p>
</td>
</tr>
Other tr tags
<tr>
<td class="tel">
<p class="desc">3333</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
I want to select the last tr tag after the tr tag that has "Intel" in the p tag
//tbody//tr[td[p[contains(text(),'Intel')]]]/followingsibling::tr[position()=last()]//p/text()
The above works but I don't wish to reference td and p explicitly. I tried wildcards ? or *, but it doesn't work.
//tbody//tr[?[?[contains(text(),'Intel')]]]/followingsibling::tr[position()=last()]//p/text()
"...which contains a text node equal to 'Intel'"
//tbody/tr[.//text() = 'Intel']/following-sibling::tr[last()]/td/p/text()
"...which contains only the string 'Intel', once you remove all insignificant white-space"
//tbody/tr[normalize-space() = 'Intel']/following-sibling::tr[last()]/td/p/text()
I think the key take-away here is that you can use descendant paths (//) and pay attention to context in predicates once you make them relative (.//).
I have a dynamically generated table with thead and tbody. Here is the example:
<tbody id="tableId" class="someclass1">
<tr id="rowId1" class="somesubclass">
<td id="item1" class="othersubclass">
<span class="attr">john Doe</span>
<td id="item2">
<span class="attr">55</span>
<td id="item3">
<span class="attr">5 street</span>
<td id="item2">
<span class="attr">cat</span>
<tr id="rowId2" class="somesubclass2">
<td id="item1" class="othersubclass2">
<span class="attr">joe smith</span>
<td id="item2">
<span class="attr">60</span>
<td id="item3">
<span class="attr">2 street</span>
<td id="item2">
<span class="attr">dog</span>
|joe doe|55|5 street|cat|
|joe foo|60|1 street|dog|
I would like to locate a row by text where the name is joe doe and put it into a list.
Locatior is working with this, but it is not a list.
#FindBy(xpath = "//tbody[contains(#id,'tableId')]/tr[td//text()[contains(.,'joe doe')]]")
private List<WebElement> list;
I got the list, but I cannot iterate over because everything has put into the first position like this:
list first element is: joe doe 55 5 street cat so this is the [0] element
How can I locate this row as a list where every td is a unique element in the list.
(iterate over, converting to string etc. is not a problem, just the locator.)
Thanks!
I don't understand what's for the -1. Anyway, here is the answer for others, hope this helps!
There is a good plugin for google kinda firepath: SelAssist, I use it to test my xpath locators.
The problem was that, td was missing. So the proper locator is
//tbody[contains(#id,'tableId')]/tr[td//text()[contains(.,'joe doe')]]/td
and it gives me list of elements, not only one.
Cheers!
if tr contains class="productnamecolor colors_productname" i want to select next tr which contains the price details. so i use :
.//a[#class="productnamecolor colors_productname"]/parent::node()/following-sibling::tr
But didn't work. What is wrong with this expression?
HTML :
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="100%">
Trouser Suspenders
</td>
</tr>
thanx in advance.
The parent of your <a> element is a td element, and the td element doesn't have a following-sibling - certainly not a following sibling that is a tr. If you want the next row in the table, use
.//a[#class="..."]/ancestor::tr[1]/following-sibling::tr[1]
or
.//tr[descendant::a/#class="..."]/following-sibling::tr[1]
If you want to select just next tr after <a class="productnamecolor colors_productname"> simply use following two ways :-
using following axis :
(.//a[#class="productnamecolor colors_productname"]/following::tr)[1]
using preceding axis :
(.//tr[preceding::a[#class="productnamecolor colors_productname"])[1]
Hope it helps...:)
People, could you please help me with this XPATH. Lets say I have the following HTML code
<table>
<tr>
<td class="clickable">text</td>
<td>value1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>value2</td>
<td>text</td>
</tr>
</table>
I need to build a XPath that will pick <tr>that have <td> with value text AND attribute class equals clickable.
I tried the following xpath:
//tr[contains(.,'text')][contains(./td/#class,'clickable')]
//tr[contains(.,'text')][contains(td/#class,'clickable')]
but none of those worked
Any help is appreciated
Thanks
You are almost there:
//tr[contains(td/#class,'clickable') and contains(td, 'text')]
Demo using xmllint:
$ xmllint input.xml --xpath "//tr[contains(td/#class,'clickable') and contains(td, 'text')]"
<tr>
<td class="clickable">text</td>
<td>value1</td>
</tr>
If you find tr with a td having value text and a td (maybe, another) with attribute class equals clickable, use answer of #alecxe.
If that is one td with two condition then
//tr[td[.='text' and #class='clickable']]
So I have some HTML that looks like thus:
<tr class="a">
<td>...</td>
<td>...</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>....</td>
<td class="b">A</td>
</tr>
<tr>....</tr>
<tr class="a">
<td class="b">B</td>
<td>....</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="b">Not this</td>
<td>....</td>
</tr>
I'm basically wanting to find the first instance of td class b following a tr with a class of a. Problem comes about is that it could be in either a child of the tr or in the next tr after it.
I can get the second case with:
//tr[#class="a"]//td[#class="b"]
But that misses the first case, because the TD is in a sibling, not a direct descendant. Ideas?
For the 2nd case (td is direct descendant of tr) :
//tr[#class="a"]//td[#class="b"][1]
For the 1st case (td is following tr), that isn't fall in the the 2nd case category :
//tr[#class="a" and not(.//td[#class="b"])]/following::td[#class="b"][1]
Combining the two xpath queries together using union operator (|) yield the expected output :
//tr[#class="a"]//td[#class="b"][1] | //tr[#class="a" and not(.//td[#class="b"])]/following::td[#class="b"][1]
output :
Element='<td class="b">A</td>'
Element='<td class="b">B</td>'