html//p//table//tr//td//a
Would this xpath be able to handle any element appearing between the above said elements ?
for ex)
html/p/div/table/tr/td/a
html/span/p/div/div/table/tr/td/b/a
html//p//table//tr//td//a
Would this xpath be able to handle any
element appearing between the above
said elements ?
for ex)
html/p/div/table/tr/td/a
html/span/p/div/div/table/tr/td/b/a
Yes, in both cases.
Yes, It will handle both of the scenarios
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internet.find(:xpath, '/html/body/div[1]/div[10]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[5]/div/div[2]/a').text
I am looping through a series of pages and sometimes this xpath will not be available. How do I continue to the next url instead of throwing an error and stopping the program? Thanks.
First, stop using xpaths like that - they're going to be ultra-fragile and horrendous to read. Without seeing the HTML I can't give you a better one - but at least part way along there has to be an element with an id you can target instead.
Next, you could catch the exception returned from find and ignore it or better yet you could check if page has the element first
if internet.has_xpath?(...)
internet.find(:xpath, ...).text
...
else
... whatever you want to do when it's not on the page
end
As an alternative to accepted answer you could consider #first method that accepts count argument as the number of expected matches or null to allow empty results as well
internet.first(:xpath, ..., count: nil)&.text
That returns element's text if one's found and nil otherwise. And there's no need to ignore rescued exception
See Capybara docs
I want to find the following element on a web site: //a[#class="a-link-normal"]/#href
inside this element: //div[#class="s-result-list s-search-results sg-row"].
I tried this one:
//*[contains(#class='s-result-list s-search-results sg-row') and contains(#class='a-link-normal')]"))
but it doesn't work, xpath helper shows "invalid xpath expression".
Probably the solution is quite simple, but i can't make it work.
Thanks in advance
So, Amazon. You're looking for this (you didn't use the correct div) :
//div[#class="s-main-slot s-result-list s-search-results sg-row"]//a[#class="a-link-normal"]
On this page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Seven#Episode_list
I have:
//*[text()='Reception']//preceding::th[contains(#id, 'ep')]//following::I
But it only registers following.
The default firepath selector is: .//*[#id='mw-content-text']/div/table[5]/tbody/tr/td[1]/I but this kind of selector is known to break quite frequently. Just wondering if there is a better way of doing this and I thought this might be a way.
Thanks!
:)
- You can see that it's getting stuff under the table which is not what I want :S
Try to use below XPath to match required elements:
//th[contains(#id, 'ep')]/following::I[./following::*[text()='Reception']]
This looks more simple
//tr[contains(#class, 'vevent')]//i
Don't overcomplicate things. You need I tag inside each row. So just find row locator tr[contains(#class, 'vevent')] and get it's I
Another good approach in case you want to check that inside of parent element is located some special element, but you want to find some 3rd element is to use such style: //element[./specific]//child , so in your case:
//tr[contains(#class, 'vevent')][./th[contains(#id,'ep')]]//i
so it's I tag inside row that contains #id,'ep' in header
Am automating things using Selenium. Need your help to handle Dynamic Xpath as below:
Driver.findElement(By.xpath("//[#id='INQ_2985']/div[2]/tr/td/div/div[3]/div")).click();
As above INQ_2985 changes to 2986,2987,2988 etc during each run
HTML CODE:
< div> class="context-menu-item-inner" style="background-image:url(../images/productSmall.png);">Tender Assignment < /div>
Tried different combinations as below but with no success:
// Driver.findElement(By.name("//input[#name='Tender Assignment']")).click();
// Driver.findElement(By.className("context-menu-item-inner")).click();`
Can you help me on this.
you can try using contains() or starts-with() in xpath,
above xpath can be rewritten as follows,
Driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[starts-with(#id,'INQ')]/div[2]/tr/td/div/div[3]/div")).click();
if you can post more of your html, we can help improve your xpath..
moreover using such long xpath's is not recommended, this may cause your test to fail more often
for example,if a "new table data or div" is added to the UI, above xpath will no longer be valid
you should try and use id, class or other attributes to get closer to the element your trying to find
i personally recommend using cssSelectors over xpath
you can use many methods,
use implicity wait;
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(#id,'select2-result-label-535')]").click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'select2-result-label-535')]").click();
Good to use Regular expression
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(#id,'INQ_')]")
Note: If you have single ID with name starts from INQ_ then you can take action on the element . If a bunch of ID then you can extract as a List<WebElements> and then match with the specific text of the element ( element.getText().trim() =="Linked Text" and if it matched then take action. You can follow other logic to traverse and match.
you can use css -
div.context-menu-item-inner
Use this xpath:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.context-menu-item-inner").click();
The best choice is using full xpath instead of id which you can get easily via firebug.
e.g.
/html/body/div[3]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/div[1]
if your xpath is varying
Ex: "//*[#id='msg500']" , "//*[#id='msg501']", "//*[#id='msg502']" and so on...
Then use this code in script:
for (int i=0;i<=9;i++) {
String mpath= "//*[#id='msg50"+i+"']";
driver.findElement(By.xpath(mpath)).click();
}
I am trying to quickly find a specific node using XPath but it seems my multiple predicates are not working. The div I need has a specific class, but there are 3 others that have it. I want to select the fourth one so I did the following:
//div[#class='myCLass' and 4]
However the "4" is being ignored. Any help? I am new to XPath.
Thanks.
If a xpath query returns a node set you can always use the [OFFSET] operator to access a certain element of it.
Use the following query to access the fourth element that matches the #class='myClass' predicate:
//div[#class='myCLass'][4]
#WilliamNarmontas answer might be an alternative to the syntax showed above.
Alternatively,
//div[#class='myCLass' and position()=4]
The accepted answer works correctly only if all of the div elements have the same parent. Otherwise use:
(//div[#class='myCLass'])[4]