I want to create an xpath for clicking on "run " (4th column) based on the first column value (xyz). the below xpath doesnt work. Can you suggest a better way of writing the xpath.
//table/tbody/tr/td[text()='xyz fix']/parent::tr/td[4]
<div id="main">
<table class="FixedLayout" width="1000px">
<tbody>
<tr></tr>
<tr>
<td class="RowHeight">
xyz
</td>
<td>xyz fix</td>
<td>1125</td>
<td>
Run
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="RowHeight">
abc
</td>
<td>abc fix</td>
<td>1125</td>
<td>
Run
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
I don't see why your one didn't work. Please clarify what it means "doesn't work". NoSuchElementException? ElementNotVisibleException? Wrong XPath? Not clicking the link or what?
Meanwhile, try the following XPaths (but the issue could be your Selenium code instead of XPath):
Here I assume you want to the <a> link instead of <td>, because you mentioned you want to click it.
Use XPath predicate:
//*[#id='main']//table/tobdy/tr[td[text()='xyz']]/td[4]/a
Use XPath predicate with attribute selector to avoid using index.
//*[#id='main']//table/tobdy/tr[td[text()='xyz']]//a[contains(#href, 'Instance/Create')]
Use .. to get the parent
//*[#id='main']//table/tobdy/tr/td[text()='xyz']/../td[4]/a
Related
I have the follow html file:
<table class="pd-table">
<caption> Tech </caption>
<tbody>
<tr data-group="1">
<td> Electrical </td>
<td> Design </td>
<tr data-group="1">
<td> Output </td>
<td> Function </td>
<tr data-group="7">
<td> EMC </td>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> EN 6547 ESD </td>
<td> EN 8901 ESD </td>
<tr data-group="8">
<td> Weight [8] </td>
<td> 27.7 </td>
I can isolate EN 6547 ESD and EN 8901 ESD with the follow xpath:
//table[#class="pd-table"]//tbody//tr//td/table//tr//td/text()').getall()
Any other way is always welcome :)
Another data which I would like to get is to get all the rest of the data without the previous isolated.
Is there any way to do it? :)
Looks like table tag is not closed properly in data-group-7...
Anyway in such cases you can stick to text content of the cell using contains() or text()="some exact text"
response.xpath('//td[contains(text(), "EMC")]').css('td~table tbody td::text').extract()
Your used Xpath uses a lot of unwanted double slash.
See meaning of double slash in Xpath.
The less you use double slash, the better it will perform.
So just use single slash like this:
//table[#class="pd-table"]/tbody/tr/td/table/tr/td/text()
Another way of selecting td's that have two ancestor::table
//td[count(ancestor::table)=2]/text()
And that leads to the answer of your second question:
//td[count(ancestor::table)=1]/text()
An other possibility would just be:
//table[#class="pd-table"]/tbody/tr/td/text()
Or(assuming the second tabel does not have tr's with #data-group):
//tr[#data-group]/td/text()
So you see there are many Xpath's lead to Rome ;-).
I have table like below without any id.
<table>
<tr>
<th>Company</th>
<th>Contact</th>
<th>Delete</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Alfreds Futterkiste</td>
<td>Maria Anders</td>
<td><a><i class="btn red">close</i> </a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Centro comercial Moctezuma</td>
<td>Francisco Chang</td>
<td><a><i class="btn red">close</i> </a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ABC Products</td>
<td>Menu Perrita</td>
<td><a><i class="btn red">close</i> </a></td>
</tr>
</table>
I need to click on the Close (X) button of the 2nd row. Which is in Centro comercial Moctezuma. This row is not display at 2nd always. It can be at any place. But I need to click on the particular Close button to delete the mentioned row for a selenium test.
Please help me in writing the xpath to identify the particular button.
Thanks
You can do this using the following XPath
//td[text()='Centro comercial Moctezuma']/following-sibling::/td//i[text()='close']
Something like this:
//tr[td = 'Centro comercial Moctezuma']/td/a
Consider the below table structure contains many rows with multiple column values. I need to identify the parent of specific row, which has to be identified using the cell .
<table class = 'grid'>
<thead id = 'header'>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<span class="group">
<span class="group__link"><a class="disabledlink"">copy</a>
</span>
</span>
</td>
<td class="COLUMNNAME">ACE</td>
<td class="COLUMNLONGNAME">Adverse Childhood Experiences</td>
<li>Family Medicine</li>
<li>General Practice</li>
</td>
<td class="COLUMNSEXFILTER">Both</td>
<td class="COLUMNAGEFILTERMIN">Any</td>
<td class="COLUMNTYPE">Score Only</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="nowrap" showactionitem="2">
<span class="group">
<span class="group__link"><a onclick="Check()" href="#">copy</a>
</span>
</span>
</td>
<td class="COLUMNNAME">AM-PAC</td>
<td class="COLUMNLONGNAME">AM-PAC Generic Outpatient Basic Mobility Short Form</td>
<td class="COLUMNNOTE"></td>
<td class="COLUMNRESTRICTEDYN">No</td>
<td class="COLUMNSPECIALTYID"></td>
<td class="COLUMNSEXFILTER">Both</td>
<td class="COLUMNAGEFILTERMIN">Any</td>
<td class="COLUMNTYPE">Score Only</td>
</tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr></tr>
</tbody></thead>
</table>
Likewise this table contains around 100 rows. I did the same using iteration and it is working fine.
Is it possible to find the parent of specific row without iteration?
You can use the parent method to find the parent of an element. Assuming that you have located a table cell, let's call it cell, you can get its row using parent and then the parent of the row with another call to parent:
cell.parent
#=> a <tr> element
cell.parent.parent
#=> the parent of the specific row - a <tbody> element in this case
Chaining multiple parent calls can become tedious and difficult to maintain. For example, you would have to call parent 4 times to get the table cell of the "copy" link. If you are after an ancestor (ie not immediate parent), you are better off using XPath:
cell.table(xpath: './ancestor::table')
#=> the <table> element containing the cell
browser.link(text: 'copy').tr(xpath: './ancestor::tr')
#=> the <tr> element containing a copy link
Hopefully Issue 451 will be implemented soon, which will remove the need for XPath. You would be able to call:
cell.parent(tag_name: 'table') # equivalent to `cell.table(xpath: './ancestor::table')`
There's no need for anything fancy, Watir has an Element#parent method.
You can use this one:
parent::node()
The below example will selects the parent node of the input tag of Id='email'.
Ex: //input[#id='email']/parent::*
the above can also be re-written as
//input[#id='email']/..
XPath tutorial for Selenium
I am trying to access data contained in a table that is itself contained in a table with class ='L1'.
So basically my html structure is like this:
<table class="L1">
<table>
<tr></tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>data</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>data</td>
</tr>
...ect...ect
</table>
</table>
I need to catch the data contained in a all <a> </a> that are in the second contained in <tr> </tr> but only starting with the second <tr> of the table.
So far I came up with that:
html_body = Nokogiri::HTML(body)
links = html_body.css('.L1').xpath("//table/tbody/tr/td[2]/a[1]")
But seems to me that this doesn't express the fact that I want to start only after the second <tr> (second <tr> included?
What would be the right code to do this ?
You can use position() to select the later elements that you want.
html_body = Nokogiri::HTML(body)
links = html_body.css('.L1').xpath("//table/tbody/tr[position()>1]/td[2]/a[1]")
As the comments on that SO answer say, remember XPath counts from 1, so >1 skips the first tr.
I have allowedcontent=true which is working and allowing me to have attributes in my opening tags; however, CKEdtior is still removing the closing tag attributes. I am using the editor to allow modification of simple Handlebars templates that use {{each}} and {{/each}}. The issue comes when using this with a table and wanting to repeat my rows.
For example, I have the following HTML entered into source:
<table>
<tr data-each={{each Person}}">
<td class="col-student-id">{{Identifier}}</td>
<td class="col-name">{{Name}}</td>
</tr data-each="{{/each}}">
</table>
When I click out of source, it removes the attribute on my closing tr tag.
Is there anyway to force CKEditor to not remove this attribute? If not, does anyone know of a way to allows me to use something like this:
<table>
{{each Person}}
<tr>
<td class="col-student-id">{{Identifier}}</td>
<td class="col-name">{{Name}}</td>
</tr>
{{/each}}
</table>
When I try the above example, it is reformatted to be:
<section>{{each Person}} {{/each}}
<table>
<tr>
<td class="col-student-id">{{Identifier}}</td>
<td class="col-name">{{Name}}</td>
</tr>
</table>
Your input source code is invalid - closing tags cannot have attributes in HTML, so CKEditor ignores them. Read more in CKEditor HTML Autocorrection Issue.