I've next structure :
<div id='list'>
<div class='column'>aaa</div>
<div class='column'>bbb</div>
...
<div class='column'>jjj</div>
</div>
I was wonder if there is a ways to use XPath, and to write some query were I can get the index of the requested element within the "list" element.
I mean that I'll ask for location of class='column' where the text value is aaa and I'll get 0 or 1...
Thanks
You could just count the div elements preceding the element you're looking for:
count(div[#id = 'list']/div[#id = 'myid']/preceding-sibling::div)
You can count the preceding siblings:
count(//div[#id="list"]/div[#id="3"]/preceding-sibling::*)
Selenium way to evaluate the position:
int position = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[#class='column' and text()='jjj']/preceding-sibling::div[#class='column']")).size() + 1;
System.out.println(position);
You can count how many "preceding-siblings" that are also of class 'column', by using this xpath:
//div[#class='column' and text()='jjj']/preceding-sibling::div[#class='column']
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Given I have the following HTML structure:
<button aria-labelledby="ref-1" id="foo" onclick="convey(event)">action 2</button>
<div class="anotherElement">foobar</div>
<div id="ref-1" hidden>target 2</div>
I would like to fetch button by its aria-labelledby attribute. I tried the following options:
//*[#aria-labelledby=string(/div[#id="ref-1"]/#id)]
//*[#aria-labelledby = string(.//*[normalize-space() = "target 2"]/#id)]
//*[#aria-labelledby = .//*[normalize-space() = "target 2"]/#id]
But wasn't able to fetch the element. Anyone has an idea what the right xPath could be?
Edit: simply put: how do I fetch the button element if my only information is "target 2", and if both elements can be randomly located?
//button[#aria-labelledby='ref-1']
or
//button[#aria-labelledby=(//*/#id)]
or
//button[#aria-labelledby=(//*[contains(.,'target 2')]/#id)]
or
//button[#aria-labelledby=(//*[contains(text(),'target 2')]/#id)]
?
Since button and div are the same level siblings here you can use preceding-sibling XPath expression like this:
//div[text()='target 2']//preceding-sibling::button
pay attention with with your actual XML this will match 2 button elements.
To make more precise math I think we will need to be based on more details, not only the target 2 text
I have a block of code like so:
<ul class="open-menu">
<span>
<li data-testid="menu-item" class="menu-item option">
<svg>...</svg>
<div>
<strong>Text Here</strong>
<small>...</small>
</div>
</li>
<li data-testid="menu-item" class="menu-item option">
<svg>...</svg>
<div>
<strong>Text</strong>
<small>...</small>
</div>
</li>
</span>
</ul>
I'm trying to select a menu item based on exact text like so in the dev tools:
$x('.//*[contains(#data-testid, "menu-item") and normalize-space() = "Text"]');
But this doesn't seem to be selecting the element. However, when I do:
$x('.//*[contains(#data-testid, "menu-item")]');
I can see both of the menu items.
UPDATE:
It seems that this works:
$x('.//*[contains(#class, "menu-item") and normalize-space() = "Text"]');
Not sure why using a class in this context works and not a data-testid. How can I get my xpath selector to work with my data-testid?
Why is this exact text selector not working
The fact that both li elements are matched by the XPath expression
if omitting the condition normalize-space() = "Text" is a clue.
normalize-space() returns ... Text Here ... for the first li
in the posted XML and ... Text ... for the second (or some other
content in place of ... from div/svg or div/small) causing
normalize-space() = "Text" to fail.
In an update you say the same condition succeeds. This has nothing to
do with using #class instead of #data-testid; it must be triggered
by some content change.
How can I get my xpath selector to work with my data-testid?
By testing for an exact text match in the li's descendant strong
element,
.//*[#data-testid = "menu-item" and div/strong = "Text"]
which matches the second li. Making the test more robust is usually
in order, e.g.
.//*[contains(#data-testid,"menu-item") and normalize-space(div/strong) = "Text"]
Append /div/small or /descendant::small, for example, to the XPath
expression to extract just the small text.
data-testid="menu-item" is matching both the outer li elements while text content you are looking for is inside the inner strong element.
So, to locate the outer li element based on it's data-testid attribute value and it's inner strong element text value you can use XPath expression like this:
//*[contains(#data-testid, "menu-item") and .//normalize-space() = "Text"]
Or
.//*[contains(#data-testid, "menu-item") and .//*[normalize-space() = "Text"]]
I have tested, both expressions are working correctly
I am searching a solution to remove a string value obtained on a webpage with an XPath function.
I have this :
<div id="article_body" class="">
This my wonderful sentence, however here the string i dont want :
<br><br>
<div class="typo">Found a typo in the article? Click here.
</div>
</div>
So at the end I would have
This my wonderful sentence, however here the string i dont want :
I get the text with
//*[#id="article_body"]
Then I try to use replace:
//replace('*[#id="article_body"]','Found a typo in the article? ', )
But it doesn't work, so I think it's because I'm a newbie with XPath...
How can I do that please?
It appears that you are getting the computed string value of the selected div element.
The string-value of an element node is the concatenation of the string-values of all text node descendants of the element node in document order.
If you don't want to include the text() from the descendant nodes, and only want the text() that are immediate children of the div, then adjust your XPath:
//*[#id="article_body"]/text()
Otherwise, you could use substring-before():
substring-before(//*[#id="article_body"], 'Found a typo in the article?')
suppose I have this structure:
<div class="a" attribute="foo">
<div class="b">
<span>Text Example</span>
</div>
</div>
In xpath, I would like to retrieve the value of the attribute "attribute" given I have the text inside: Text Example
If I use this xpath:
.//*[#class='a']//*[text()='Text Example']
It returns the element span, but I need the div.a, because I need to get the value of the attribute through Selenium WebDriver
Hey there are lot of ways by which you can figure it out.
So lets say Text Example is given, you can identify it using this text:-
//span[text()='Text Example']/../.. --> If you know its 2 level up
OR
//span[text()='Text Example']/ancestor::div[#class='a'] --> If you don't know how many level up this `div` is
Above 2 xpaths can be used if you only want to identify the element using Text Example, if you don't want to iterate through this text. There are simple ways to identify it directly:-
//div[#class='a']
From your question itself you have mentioned the answer for it
but I need the div.a,
try this
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.a")).getAttribute("attribute");
use cssSelector for best result.
or else try the following xpath
//div[contains(#class, 'a')]
If you want attribute of div.a with it's descendant span which contains text something, try as below :-
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#class = 'a' and descendant::span[text() = 'Text Example']]")).getAttribute("attribute");
Hope it helps..:)
Take this (id attributes only added so I can refer to them below)
<div id="one">
<figure>foo</figure>
<figure>bar</figure>
</div>
<div id="two">
<figure>foo</figure>
<div>bar</div>
</div>
<div id="three">
<div>bar</div>
</div>
How can I select all div elements whose children are all figure elements, i.e. selecting div one only in the given example?
I sort of need //div[count(not figure)>0].
This is one possible way :
//div[not(*[name() != 'figure']) and not(text()[normalize-space()])]
The left-side of and make sure the div doesn't have child element named other than 'figure', and the right-side make sure it doesn't have non-empty child text node.
or, the same approach but using count() :
//div[count(*[name() != 'figure']|text()[normalize-space()]) = 0]
I did it like this:
//div[figure][count(figure) = count(*)]
This finds divs that must contain at least one figure, and then it checks that the count of figure elements matches the count of all other elements; if this is true then it cannot contain anything else.