I am attempting to capture a line of text for an automated WebDriver test to use it in a comparison later on. However, I cannot find an XPath that will work with WebDriver. I have used the text() function before to capture text that is not in a tag, but in this instance that is not working. Here is the HTML, note that this text will never be the same, so I cannot use contains or similar functions.
<div id="content" class="center ui-content" data-role="content" role="main">
<div data-iscroll="scroller">
<div class="ui-corner-all ui-controlgroup ui-controlgroup-vertical" data-role="controlgroup">
<a class="ui-btn ui-corner-top ui-btn-hover-c" style="text-align: left" data-role="button" onclick="onDocumentClicked(21228772, "document.php?loan=********&folderseq=0&itemnum=21228772&pageCount=3&imageTypeName=1003 Application - Final&firstInitial=&lastName=")" href="#" data-corners="true" data-shadow="true" data-iconshadow="true" data-wrapperels="span" data-theme="c">
<span class="ui-btn-inner ui-corner-top">
<span class="ui-btn-text">
<img class="checkMark checkMark21228772 notViewedCompletely" width="15" height="15" title="You have not yet viewed this document." src="../images/white_dot.gif"/>
1003 Application - Final. (Jan 11 2012 5:04PM)
</span>
</span>
</a>
In this example, the text I am attempting to capture is: 1003 Application - Final. (Jan 11 2012 5:04PM)
I have inspected the element with Firebug and I have tried the following XPaths with no success.
html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/a[1]/span/span
html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/a[1]/span/span/text()
The WebDriver test is being written in C#.
You can either use this
driver.FindElement(By.XPath(".//div[#id='content']/following-sibling::span[#class='ui-btn-text']")
or
var elem = driver.FindElement(By.Id("Content"));
string text = string.Empty;
if(elem!=null) {
var textElem = elem.FindElement(By.Xpath(".//following-sibling::span[#class='ui-btn-text']"));
if(textElem!=null) text = textElem.Text();
}
I was able to solve this issue by removing the span tags from the XPath.
GetText("html/body/div[3]/div[2]/div/div/a[1]", SelectorType.XPath);
python webdriver code looks something like
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[#class='ui-btn-text']").text
But locator may be not uniqe, because I can't see all the code
PS Try to never use locators like html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/a[1]/span/span
Approach:
Find the CSS Selector from the Given DOM
Derived CSS:css=#content div.ui-controlgroup > a[onclick*='onDocumentClicked'] > span > span
Use the C# Library Method to get the Text.
Related
Following is the HTML:
<div class="ajaxcourseindentfix">
<h3>CPSC 353 - Introduction to Computer Security (3) </h3>
<hr>Security goals, security systems, access controls, networks and security, integrity, cryptography fundamentals, authentication. Attacks: software, network, website; management considerations, security standards in government and industry; security issues in requirements, architecture, design, implementation, testing, operation, maintenance, acquisition, and services.
<br>
<br>Prerequisite: CPSC 253U
<span style="display: none !important"> </span> or CPSC 254
<span style="display: none !important"> </span> and CPSC 351
<span style="display: none !important"> </span>
, declared major/minor in CPSC, CPEN, or CPEI
<br>
</div>
I need to fetch the following text from this HTML:
From Line 6 - or
From Line 7 - and
, declared major/minor in CPSC, CPEN, or CPEI
I am able to get the href [Course number: CPSC 254 etc...] with the following XPath:
# This xpath gives me all the tags followed by h3 and then I iterate through them in my script.
//div[#class='ajaxcourseindentfix']/h3/following-sibling::text()[2]/following-sibling::*
Update
And, then the text with the following XPath:
# This xpath gives me all the text after the h3 tag.
//div[#class='ajaxcourseindentfix']/h3/following-sibling::text()[2]/following-sibling::text()
I need to have these course name/prerequisite in the same way they are at URL 1.
In this approach I am getting all the HREF first, then all text. Is there a better way to achieve this? I don't want to iterate over 2 XPaths to get the HREF first, then Text and after that club them to form the prerequisite string.
1 http://catalog.fullerton.edu/ajax/preview_course.php?catoid=16&coid=99648&show
Try to use below code to get required output:
div = soup.select("div.ajaxcourseindentfix")[0]
" ".join([word for word in div.stripped_strings]).split("Prerequisite: ")[-1]
The output is
'CPSC 253U or CPSC 254 and CPSC 351 , declared major/minor in CPSC, CPEN, or CPEI'
<div id="t_info" class="tab-pane fade active in tab">
<br><strong>Delivery</strong> <br>
<br><br><br><strong>Model Name</strong> : BP250
<br>
<br>Full HD up-scaling dramatically improves the resolution of any original content to Full HD.
<br>
<br><strong>Barcode</strong> : 8806087225921
<br>
<br><strong>Product Type</strong> : Blu-ray Player<br>
<br>Blu-Ray Disc <br>External <br></div>
I need xpath to capture the barcode value. Location of the barcode varies depending on the description.
I have tried //*[text()='Barcode'] . but i cant capture the value.
In your case you can use next XPath:
(//div[#id="t_info"]/text())[./preceding::strong[text()='Barcode']][1]
Please note that it is mauvais ton (bad manners)
I want to get text "+12345" from this HTML
<p class="Test" ng-repeat="(k, wl) in partnerEditModel.td">
<span id="Test-update-12345" class="ng-binding">
+12345
<span class="err-message ng-binding">Error</span>
</span>
<a id="mibile" class="button" ng-click="remove(k)">
</p>
I have written "//p[#class='Test']/span but it matched "+12345Error" which I have just wanted "+12345" (I have not wanted "Error".)
Could you please tell me about how to write this xpath?
Try below XPath expression to get "+12345" only:
normalize-space(//span[#id="Test-update-12345"]/text()[1])
Try below code in robot framework
${var}= | Get Text | xpath=//span[span[#class='err-message ng-binding']]
Log | ${var}
Try using below:
xpath=//p[#class='Test']/span[1]
I couldn't find the #root-node-position XPath attribute/selector info. Would you give me a link of where i can read about it? Is it XPath 2.0?
The code (not mine) is ../preceding-sibling::div[1]/div[#root-node-position]/div applied to this HTML:
<div class="left">
<div class='prod2'>
<div class='name'>Dell Latitude D610-1.73 Laptop Wireless Computer
</div>2 GHz Intel Pentium M, 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 40 GB
</div>
<div class='prod1'>
<div class='name'>Samsung Chromebook (Wi-Fi, 11.6-Inch)
</div>1.7 GHz, 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM, 16 GB
</div>
</div>
<div class="right">
<div class='price2'>$239.95</div>
<div class='price1 best'>$249.00</div>
</div>
Firstly i fetch a price text under class='right' with this query : //DIV[contains(#class,'best')] and then i apply the above mentioned XPath with #root-node-attribute under class='left' to retrieve the rest of the record info.
In C# this approach can be handy:
XmlDocument docSourceFile = new XmlDocument();
docSourceFile.Load("XML file path goes here");
XmlNode nodRoot = docSourceFile.DocumentElement;
string strAttributeValue = nodRoot .Attributes ["Write Attribute Name Here"].Value;
Generally, in XPath we use like below to get value of attributes of RootNode:
/RootNodeName/#AttributeName
Good Luck.
The #root-node-position is a non-standard XPath attribute that is only
supported by Visual Web Ripper.
You can read more about non-standard XPath methods, attributes and
axis supported by Visual Web Ripper here, only for registered users.
My HTML structure is
<div class="line">
<h2>Header</h2>
<h3>Mailing Address</h3>
2349 Glorem ipsun lorem ipsum CA 95833<br>
<br>
Phone: 111-111-2111 Fax: 111-511-1111<br>
<a onfocus="blur()" target="_blank"" href="">some text</a><br>
<a onfocus="blur()" target="_blank" href="">some address</a><br>
<div><p></p></div>
<h3>Contact(s)</h3>
</div>
The HTML page contains several <div class=line></div> elements. For each div i need to extract Phone and Fax in a array with other data. I tried using
doc.css("div#ctl00_cphContent_divBrowseByMember").each do |div|
div.css("div.line").each do |line|
line.xpath('//text()[preceding-sibling::br and following-sibling::a]').text.strip
end
end
It returns nothing and returns time out error.
If I try as
line.xpath('//text()[preceding-sibling::br and following-sibling::a]')[0].text.strip
will return same Phone and fax for all other divs. Please suggest any other solution that will help me.
The easy way:
phone, fax = line.text.scan /\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}/