I am using the following but it does not get me the value of the title
//*[#id="843285"]/td[3]/a[#title]
Elche vs Osasuna
Can someone give me some guidance?
Few ways to find you the element directly, then use #title to get the title attribute. Note that your id is g843285, not 843285.
If it's always <a> tag (otherwiser use * but with lower performance)
//a[#id="g843285"]/#title
//a[contains(#id, "843285")]/#title
//a[contains(#href, "match/843285")]/#title
I assume you don't know the match teams (otherwise you won't need to find out title), so the following won't work, posting here just for references.
//a[text() = 'Elche vs Osasuna']/#title
"Find the element whose ID attribute equals "843285", and return the value of its title attribute"
//*[#id="843285"]/#title
You can do this if you're always dealing with a tags
//a[#id="g843285"]/#title
Otherwise do //*[#id="g843285"]/#title
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I’m trying to match a value where I don’t necessarily know the whole value every time i.e. it's randomly generated. Is there a way to search for a value where a part of the value dynamically changes?
Please see my example of value I'm trying to find and my attempted xPath:
<div class="target" testid="target”>
<h2>Hi, random user</h2>
<p>To get the xpath <b>target</b> of <b>[text I don’t know]</b> in <b>[text I don’t know]</b>, you need to do the following</p>
</div>
I’ve tried the following xpath I picked up from another question but it don’t get a match:
//p[matches(.,'^To get the xpath <b>target</b> of <b>.*</b> in <b>.*</b>, you need to do the following$')]
I’ve tried different combinations with and without the bold tag but can’t seem to get it to match. truthfully I'm not sure I've got the right syntax...
Try the plain text in the second argument of matches e.g.
//p[matches(., '^To get the xpath target of .*? in .*?, you need to do the following$')]
Online sample here.
Why not to use contains() method using the fixed attribute value?
Something like:
//p[contains(.,'you need to do the following')]
I have a code like this:
doc = Nokogiri::HTML("<a href='foo.html'>foo</a><a href='bar.html'>bar</a>")
doc.xpath('//a/#href').map(&:value) # => ["foo.html", "bar.html"]
It works as I expected.
But just out of curiosity I want to know, can I also get the value of href attributes only by using XPath?
Locate attributes first
example:
site name:
https://www.easymobilerecharge.com/
We want to locate "MTS" link
In your case, to locate this element, we can use x-path like:
//a[contains(text(),'MTS')]
Now to get href attribute, use:
//a[contains(text(),'MTS')]/#href
Judging from the first answer to this question the answer seems to be yes and no. It offers
xml.xpath("//Placement").attr("messageId")
which is quite close to "only XPath", but not entirely. Up to you to judge if that is enough for you.
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 Адреса магазинов on page and want to store text, then click on this link and verify that the page where am I going to contains this text in headers. So I tried to find element by xpath, and selenium.getText get the right result, but selenium.click goes to another link. Where have I made a mistake? Thanks in advance!
String m_1 = selenium.getText("xpath=html/body/div[3]/div[2]/div[1]/h4[1]");
selenium.click("xpath=html/body/div[3]/div[2]/div[1]/h4[1]");
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
assertTrue(selenium.getText("css=h3").contains(m_1));
page:http://www.svyaznoy.ru/map/
Resume:
using xpath=//descendant::a[#href='/address_shops/'][2] or css=div.deff_one_column a[href='/address_shops/'] get right results
using xpath=//a[#href='/address_shops/'] - Element is not currently visible
xpath=//a[#href='/address_shops/'][2] - Element not found
There is a missing slash at the beginning of the expression. I am kind of surprised this got through at all - the first slash means "begin at root node".
Also, it is better to select the <a> element instead of the <h>. Sometimes it works, sometimes is misclicks, sometimes the click doesn't do anything at all. Try to be as concrete as you can be.
Try this one.
String m1 = selenium.getText("xpath=/html/body/div[3]/div[2]/div/h4/a");
selenium.click("xpath=/html/body/div[3]/div[2]/div/h4/a");
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
// your variable is named m1, but m_1 was used here
assertTrue(selenium.getText("css=h3").contains(m1));
By the way, there are even better XPath expressions you could use. See the documentation, it really is helpful. Just an example, this would work, too, and is much easier to write and read:
String m1 = selenium.getText("xpath=//a[#href='/address_shops/']");
selenium.click("xpath=//a[#href='/address_shops/']");
Sorry, didn't notice page link. Css for second link can be something like that css=div.deff_one_column a[href='/address_shops/']
I am looking to write an XPath query to return the full element ID from a partial ID that I have constructed. Does anyone know how I could do this? From the following HTML (I have cut this down to remove work specific content) I am looking to extract f41_txtResponse from putting f41_txt into my query.
<input id="f41_txtResponse" class="GTTextField BGLQSTextField2 txtResponse" value="asdasdadfgasdfg" name="f41_txtResponse" title="" tabindex="21"/>
Cheers
You can use contains to select the element:
//*[contains(#id, 'f41_txt')]
Thanks to Thomas Jung I have been able to figure this out. If I use:
//*[contains(./#id, 'f41_txt')]/#id
This will return just the ID I am looking for.
I suggest to not use numbers from Id , when you are composing xpath's using partial id. Those number reprezent DINAMIC elements. And dinamic elements change over the next deploys / releases in the System Under Test.The pourpose is to UNIQUE identify elements.
Using this may be a better option or something like this, yo got the idea:
//input[contains(#id, '_txtResponse')]/#id
It worked for me like below
//*[contains(./#id, 'f41_txt')]