I've been through the xpath tutorials and checked many other posts, hence I'm not sure what I'm missing. I'm simply trying to find the following element by xpath:
<input class="t-TextBox" type="email" test-id="test-username"/>
I've tried many things, such as:
element = findElement(By.xpath("//[#test-id='test-username']"));
The error is Expression is not a legal expression.
I'm using Firefox on MacBook
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
element = findElement(By.xpath("//*[#test-id='test-username']"));
element = findElement(By.xpath("//input[#test-id='test-username']"));
(*) - means any tag name.
You should add the tag name in the xpath, like:
element = findElement(By.xpath("//input[#test-id='test-username']");
your syntax is completely wrong....you need to give findelement to the driver
i.e your code will be :
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
WebeElement element ;
element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//[#test-id='test-username']");
// your xpath is: "//[#test-id='test-username']"
i suggest try this :"//*[#test-id='test-username']"
You missed the closing parenthesis at the end:
element = findElement(By.xpath("//[#test-id='test-username']"));
Just need to add * at the beginning of xpath and closing bracket at last.
element = findElement(By.xpath("//*[#test-id='test-username']"));
You can use contains too:
element = findElement(By.xpath("//input[contains (#test-id,"test-username")]");
You haven't specified what kind of html element you are trying to do an absolute xpath search on. In your case, it's the input element.
Try this:
element = findElement(By.xpath("//input[#class='t-TextBox' and #type='email' and #test-
id='test-username']");
Correct Xpath syntax is like:
//tagname[#value='name']
So you should write something like this:
findElement(By.xpath("//input[#test-id='test-username']"));
Related
I have the following XPath :
//table[#class='ui-jqgrid-htable']/thead/tr/th//text()
And I'm trying to get the text from it with the following command :
String LabelName = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//table[#class='ui-jqgrid htable']/thead/tr/th//text()")).getText()
But it's not printing text, the result is blank. Could you help me please ?
The text() in your xpath does not qualify as an element. Your element ends at //table[#class='ui-jqgrid-htable']/thead/tr/th. Try using getText() for this XPath.
Also, a table would have many headers. Using findElement will only return the first one.
If you want to get all headers use
driver.findElements(By.xpath("//table[#class='ui-jqgrid-htable']/thead/tr/th"))
and loop through the list to getText of individual element.
I've below xml and would like to read the value of 'Value' tag whose Name matches 'test2'. I'm using the below xpath , but did not work. Can someone help.
/*[ local-name()='OutputData']/*[ local-name()='OutputDataItem']/*[ local-name()='Name'][normalize-space(.) = 'test2']//*[local-name()='Value']/text()
<get:OutputData>
<get:OutputDataItem>
<get:Name>test1</get:Name>
<get:Value/>
</get:OutputDataItem>
<get:OutputDataItem>
<get:Name>test2</get:Name>
<get:Value>B5B4</get:Value>
</get:OutputDataItem>
<get:OutputDataItem>
<get:Name>test3</get:Name>
<get:Value/>
</get:OutputDataItem>
<get:OutputDataItem>
<get:Name>OP_VCscEncrptCd_VAR</get:Name>
<get:Value/>
</get:OutputDataItem>
</get:OutputData>
Thanks
You were close, but because the get:name and get:value are siblings, you need to adjust your XPath a little.
Your XPath was attempting to address get:value elements that were descendants of get:name, rather than as siblings. Move the criteria that is filtering the get:name into a predicate, then step down into the get:value:
/*[ local-name()='OutputData']/*[ local-name()='OutputDataItem']
[*[ local-name()='Name'][normalize-space(.) = 'test2']]/*[local-name()='Value']/text()
You could also combine the criteria of the predicate filter on the get:name and use an and:
/*[ local-name()='OutputData']/*[ local-name()='OutputDataItem']
[*[ local-name()='Name' and normalize-space(.) = 'test2']]/*[local-name()='Value']/text()
This should work I think:
//*[local-name()="get:Name" and text()="test2"]/following-sibling::*[local-name()="get:Value"]/text()
I have a code such as:
<out:a>
<out:Name Type="First" TypeCode="Best">JAE</out:Name>
</out:a>
When I gave the xpath expression as
//*[name()='out:Name'],
I got the result as
<out:Name Type="First" TypeCode="Best" xmlns:out3="abc" xmlns:out2="def" xmlns:out1="ghi" xmlns:out="jkl">JAE</out:Name>
I would like to get the value JAE using xpath expression. Could someone help me in that please?
Add text() on the end:
//*[name()='out:Name']/text()
Or
//out:Name/text()
It depends on the tool you use.
With java / Xpath and evaluate, your xpath expression works well:
expression=" //*[name()='out:Name']";
String value = xPath.evaluate(expression, document);
System.out.println("EVALUATE:"+value); // => EVALUATE:JAE
I have seen some examples of how to do this in Javascript or python, but am looking for how to find the text of the for attribute on a label. e.g.
<label for="thisIsTheTextNeeded">LabelText</label>
<input type="checkbox" id=thisIsTheTextNeeded">
We want to pick up the text from the for attribute on the label element. Then use that text as the id to find the checkbox.
The .NET solution might look like:
textWeNeed = selenium.getAttribute("//label[text()='LabelText']/#for");
I tried this in Ruby:
textWeNeed =
#browser.find_element("xpath//label[text()='LabelText']/#for")
and get the error:
expected "xpath//label[text()=input_value]/#for":String to respond to #shift (ArgumentError)
Any ideas?
Here is how I fixed it. Thanks for all the help!
element = #browser.find_element(:xpath=>"//label[text()=\'#{input_value}\']")
attrValue = element.attribute('for') listElement =
#browser.find_element(:id=>"#{attrValue}")
You should use the attribute method to get the value of the attribute. See the doc
element = #browser.find_element(:xpath, "//label[text()='LabelText']")
attrValue = element.attribute("for")
According to OP's comment and provided html I think the element needs some explicit wait
wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => 10) # seconds
element = wait.until { #browser.find_element(:xpath => "//label[contains(text(),'My list name')]") }
attrValue = element.attribute("for")
find_element function requires Hash to search with xpath.
correct way is here,
textWeNeed =
#browser.find_element(xpath: "xpath//label[text()='LabelText']/#for")
below is wrong way(your code).
textWeNeed =
#browser.find_element("xpath//label[text()='LabelText']/#for")
I found in Ruby when looking for Strings best to use is :find: instead of :find_element:
textWeNeed =
#browser.find("xpath//label[text()='LabelText']/#for")
when presented with the error: "String to respond to #shift"
I am trying to click an element that changes per each order like so
edit_div_123
edit_div_124
edit_div_xxx
xxx = any three numbers
I have tried using regex like so:
#driver.find_element(:css, "#edit_order_#{\d*} > div.submit > button[name=\"commit\"]").click
#driver.find_element(:xpath, "//*[(#id = "edit_order_#{\d*}")]//button").click
Is this possible? Any other ways of doing this?
You cannot use Regexp, like the other answers have indicated.
Instead, you can use a nifty CSS Selector trick:
#driver.find_element(:css, "[id^=\"edit_order_\"] > div.submit > button[name=\"commit\"]").click
Using:
^= indicates to find the element with the value beginning with your criteria.
*= says the criteria should be found anywhere within the element's value
$= indicates to find the element with with your criteria at the end of the value.
~= allows you to find the element based on a single criteria when the actual value has multiple space-seperated list of values.
Take a look at http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/the-30-css-selectors-you-must-memorize/ for some more info on other neat CSS tricks you should add to your utility belt!
You have no provided any html fragment that you are working on. Hence my answer is just based on the limited inputs provided your question.
I don't think WebDriver APIs support regex for locating elements. However, you can achieve what you want using just plain XPath as follows:
//*[starts-with(#id, 'edit_div_')]//button
Explanation: Above xpath will try to search all <button> nodes present under all elements whose id attribute starts with string edit_div_
In short, you can use starts-with() xpath function in order to match element with id format as edit_div_ followed by any number of characters
No, you can not.
But you should do something like this:
function hasClass(element, className) {
var re = new RegExp('(?:^|\\s+)' + className + '(?:\\s+|$)');
return re.test(element.className);
}
This worked for me
#driver.find_element(:xpath, "//a[contains(#href, 'person')]").click