Using Selenium IDE, I'm trying to click a button within a table on a webpage using XPath with a partial id and a title from the element. The XPath I'm using is:
xpath=//*[contains(#id, 'ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell')]//*[contains(#title, 'Select Seat')]
and thats the entire html code for an example of the buttons im trying to click:
<li id="ctl00_MainContent_repAircraftMap_ctl20_repAircraftMapRow_ctl00_liAircraftMapCell" class="">
<a id="ctl00_MainContent_repAircraftMap_ctl20_repAircraftMapRow_ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell" href="javascript:void(0)" seatnumber="20A" mapbindattribute="1124" title="Select Seat 20A" onclick="SeatClick(1124);"></a>
</li>
Am I constructing this incorrectly? It's not working!
Now that you have provided your HTML sample, we're able to see that your XPath is slightly wrong. While it's valid XPath, it's logically wrong.
You've got:
//*[contains(#id, 'ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell')]//*[contains(#title, 'Select Seat')]
Which translates into:
Get me all the elements that have an ID that contains ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell. Out of these elements, get any child elements that have a title that contains Select Seat.
What you actually want is:
//a[contains(#id, 'ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell') and contains(#title, 'Select Seat')]
Which translates into:
Get me all the anchor elements that have both: an id that contains ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell and a title that contains Select Seat.
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Hi I have this element from a dropdown menu I try to select:
<div class="tt-suggestion tt-selectable">
<strong class="tt-highlight">Auto Customer</strong>
</div>
If I use element(by.xpath("//strong[contains(text(),'Auto Customer')]")).click(); I can select it no problem. But if I use element(by.xpath("//*[contains(text(),'Auto Customer')]")).click(); I get "Failed: element not visible"
Can someone explain this to me please?
Thank you
Because the * in //*[contains(text(),'Auto Customer')] means any tag, not only the strong Tag. But //strong[contains(text(),'Auto Customer')] must be strong Tag.
//*[contains(text(),'Auto Customer')] should find more then one elements on page, and the first one is not visible. You can try this xpath in Chrome DevTool's Element Tab to see how many elements it can find and the first one is visible or not.
I am not able to click an arrow drop down filed in my application using selenium web driver.
I tried lot of XPath using class name and relative XPath
This is the code used for the problem
<span class="dijitReset dijitInline dijitIcon pentaho_dijitEditorIconExport"
data-dojo-attach-point="iconNode"></span>
Please add some more information from your HTML i just add some text and xpaths are like that
<span class="dijitReset dijitInline dijitIcon pentaho_dijitEditorIconExport"
data-dojo-attach-point="iconNode">test</span>
Xpaths are:
//span[#class='dijitReset dijitInline dijitIcon pentaho_dijitEditorIconExport']
or
//span[#data-dojo-attach-point='iconNode']
or
//span[#data-dojo-attach-point='iconNode' and #class='dijitReset dijitInline dijitIcon pentaho_dijitEditorIconExport']
Add some more informaton if you have any concern
dojo combo are basically <input type= "text">, once u click on it or type the first letter of the option you want to select, a <div> is attached to the html body which has following structure:-
<div resultname="option name" resultvalue="option value" class="dojoComboBoxItem dojoComboBoxItemEven ">Option Value</div>
now there are 3 steps to select from dojo
identify the input text
type the first few letters of the option you want to select
create dynamic xpath to select the option
the code goes as followes
String optionName = "Option You Want to Select";
WebElement dojoBox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("<provide the xpath here>"));
dojoBox.sendKeys(optionName.substring(0,2));
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='page-home']/span/div[#resultvalue='" + optionName + "']")).click();
if you are not sure about the dynamic xpath structure, then manually select the option, and inspect the div you have added, generally it should have the similar structure.
I'm kind of new to XPATH-query. I use RF and selenium2library and the XPath Helper-plugin in chrome to test a certain website page. I'm new to HTML/CSS/JavaScript as well.
The web page consists of two ULs (lists) for left and right sides of the page and each one has a few LIs which have few divisions comprised of widgets (JPEG images etc).
I need to count this list rows (number of LIs in each UL). I have already done the samething in a drop down menu to count its elements with no problem (perhaps because it was considered
a web element). But right now I use the same "Get Matching Xpath Count" which returns almost the whole page HTML source instead of a number and it then fails.
All my program is based on getting the number of LIs in a UL (of drop down menu, page, table,...). so I wonder what to do now. Here is an example of the HTML code of the page:
<ul class="rqcol" id="col8a580456553ae">
<li class="rqportlet" id="por8a58045655">
<div id="hdrpor8a580" class="rqhdr" onmouseover="RQ.util.showTools(this)" onmouseout="RQ.util.hideTools(this)"> </div> </li>
<li class="rqportlet" id="por8a580456" >
<div id="hdrpor8a581" class="rqhdr" onmouseover="RQ.util.showTools(this)" onmouseout="RQ.util.hideTools(this)"> </div></li>
</ul>
and my code was:
Get Matching Xpath Count | //ul[#id="ccol8a580456553ae"]/li
which does give me some texts plus HTML code.i also tried:
Get Length | //ul[#id="ccol8a580456553ae"]
which doesn't give me 2 but a big number.
An XPath 2.0 expression to count the 'li' for the specific '' would be:
//ul[#id="col8a580456553ae"]/count(li)
Try this new chrome extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/relative-xpath-helper/eanaofphbanknlngejejepmfomkjaiic
You've made a typo in the id value - an extra "c" char in the beginning; otherwise the xpath is correct:
${count}= Get Matching Xpath Count //ul[#id="col8a580456553ae"]/li
By the way, the keyword Get Matching Xpath Count is deprecated in the latest version of the SeleniumLibrary, in favour of Get Element Count
In a ruby script that uses watir, I'm trying to find text within an list item within an unordered list, then click on the link within that list item. In the sample below, I want to find "Apple" and have it click on the link that takes you to http://samplegrocerystore.com/tehnc34.
<div class="col-login">
<img class="logo" src="/images/hello.png" />
<h1 style="margin-top:15px;">Select Account</h1>
You have multiple accounts -- please select the one you would like to log in with.
<ul>
<li><h3>The Grocery Store</h3><h4>Chapter: Apple (#01)</h4>
<br/><strong>Login to this account</strong>
</li><li>
<h3>The Grocery Store</h3><h4>Chapter: Banana (#02)</h4>
<br/><strong>Login to this account</strong>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
I guess you are saying that you don't know the link href ahead of time?
Assuming you have opened the page in question using a Watir::Browser variable called browser:
Working off the unique text in the list item (Apple),
browser.li(:text, /Apple/).link(:text, 'Login to this account').click
should click the desired link.
Or if you do know the link href ahead of time, it is easier to use that:
browser.link(:href, 'http://samplegrocerystore.com/tehnc34').click
Either one should work, though if your web page is fairly complicated using a regex to find the word Apple might be slowish.
Based on your HTML, you can use the find method on a lists collection to locate the element with the specified text and then click on the link within the list element:
li = lists.find { |el| el.text.include? "Apple"}
li.a.click
try the following in irb:
browser.h4(:text => /Apple/).links.count
browser.h4(:text => /Apple/).parent.links.count
browser.h4(:text => /Apple/).parent.parent.links.count
until you find your answer with just 1 link, then that's your immediate link following the 'Apple' text. Then just call it like below:
browser.h4(:text => /Apple/).parent.link.click
I am trying to write an xpath expression that selects all div tags that have an attribute id that start with CompanyCalendar. Below is a snippet of the HTML that I am looking at:
<td class="some class" align="center" onclick="Calendar_DayClicked(this,'EventCont','Event');">
<span class="Text"></span>
<div id="CompanyCalendar02.21" class="Pop CalendarClick" style="right: 200px; top: 235px;"></div>
There are multiple divs that have an id like CompanyCalendar02.21 but for each new month in the calendar, they change the id. For example, the next month would be CompanyCalendar02.22. I would like to be able to select all of the divs that are equal to CompanyCalendar*
I am rather new at this so I was using some example off the net to try and get my xpath expression to work but to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am trying to write an xpath expression that selects all div tags that have an attribute id that start with CompanyCalendar.
The following expression is perhaps what you are looking for:
//div[starts-with(#id,'CompanyCalendar')]
What it does, in plain English, is
Return all div elements in the XML document that have an attribute id whose attribute value starts with "CompanyCalendar".
While checking in Browser console with the $x() call, it worked only after flipping the quotes - i.e. double quotes inside the Xpath starts-with() call.
$x('//div[starts-with(#id,"CompanyCalendar")]')