Selenium XPath for a table - selenium-rc

Given this html segment:
<strong style="background-color: transparent;">53°F</strong>
How to retrieve the 53°F text? I tried
sel.getText("//parent_selector/**strong[text()**]"))
but this is not working.


Try this one :)
selenium.getText("xpath=//table[#class='twc-forecast-table twc-second']//tr[4]//strong");

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How to write the xpath for span tag

<span class="autoSuggKeywords">
samsung
refrigerator
</span>
i want to access the content refrigerator using xpath
objective :identify the element using Autosuggestion
i tried below
.//span[#class="autoSuggKeywords"]
.//[text()='refrigerator']

Try following solution :
//span[contains(#class, 'autoSuggKeywords') and text() = 'refrigerator']
Hope it will help you.

xpath expression:
//span[#class="autoSuggKeywords" and contains(.,'refrigerator')]

Need help finding an element in selenium

Can some one help me to locate an element (without using xpath) which is displayed using : <i id="ext-gen759" class="icon-tool"></i> under a <div> tag. The HTML is as follows:
<div id="ext-comp-1089" class=" MiniTbar">
<a href="javascript:void(0);" id="ext-gen760" class=" active">
<i id="ext-gen759" class="icon-tool"></i> -->> need to locate this.
</a>
</div>
I don't want to use:
By.Id --> id is dynamic
By.XPath --> not stable
I have tried the following without getting a result:
By.className("icon-tool") -- > not working
By.partialLinkText("icon-tool") --> not working
Any solution?

You can rely on the part of the id using, for example, starts-with():
//div[starts-with(#id, "ext-comp-")]/a[starts-with(#id, "ext-gen")]/i[#class="icon-tool"]
Or a CSS selector:
div[id^=ext-comp-] a.active[id^=ext-gen] i.icon-tool[id^=ext-gen]

using xpath should do this. You may need to make sure that's the only element i with same criteria on the page
//i[contains(#id,'ext-gen')]

Give a chance to the find element by css selector ?
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('i.icon-tool')
The python documentation is here http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/locating-elements.html

You can find it using css selector:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("i[class='icon-tool']"));

HtmlUnit - getTextContent()

I´m working whith HTMLUnit, I need get text content of a HtmlAnchor but only text no more tags html have.
<a class="subjectPrice" href="http://www.terra.es/?ca=28_s&st=a&c=4" title="Opel Zafira Tourer 2.0 Cdti 165 Cv Excellence 5p. -12">
<span class="old_price">32.679€</span>
24.395€
If I execute htmlAnchor.getTextContent() it´s return 32.679€ 24.395€, but I only need 24.395€
Anybody can help me? thanks.

Just use XPath to get the appropriate DomText node. It seems that ./text() taking as a reference the HtmlAnchor should be enough.

XPath to locate an <TD> tag with a specific text in OnClick

I have the following HTML:
<td onclick="fbm_bet('53987976','1','6','')" class="bfbhlt">
Is it possible to use Xpath to locate the looking for the number 53987976. Something similar to:
//td[#contains="53987988"]
Many thanks,
Stefan

//td[contains(#onclick,'53987976')]

Trying to create XPath from this HTML snippet

I have played for a while writing XPath but am unable to come up with exactly what I want.
I'm trying to write XPath for link(click1 and click2 in code snippet below) based on known text(myidentity in code snippet below). Can someone take a look into and suggest possible solution?
HTML code snippet:
<div class="abc">
<a onclick="mycontroller.goto('xx','yy'); return false;" href="#">
<img src="images/controls/inheritance.gif"/>
</a>
myidentity
<span>
<a onclick="mycontroller.goto('xx','yy'); return false;" href="#">click1</a>
<a onclick="mycontroller.goto('xx','yy'); return false;" href="#">click2</a>
</span>
</div>

You don't need to use XPath here, you could use a CSS locator. These are often faster and more compatible across different browsers.
css=div:contains(myidentity) > span a:nth-child(1) //click1
css=div:contains(myidentity) > span a:nth-child(2) //click2
Note that the > is only required to workaround a bug in the CSS locator library used by Selenium.

Hard to say without seeing the rest of the HTML but the following should work:
//div[text()[contains(., "myidentity")]]/span/a

See Macro's answer - this form should be used.
//div[text()[contains(., "myidentity")]]/span/a[2]
The following only works with one section of text in the containing div.
You'll need to select based on the text containing your identity text.
Xpath for click1
//div[contains(text(),"myidentity")]/span/a[1]
Xpath for click2
//div[contains(text(),"myidentity")]/span/a[2]

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