//input[#type="hidden" and #name="val" and position() = 1]/#value
does this mean get the text typed inside the input box ?
Read from right to left, it means "Get the value attribute of all of the input tags whose type attribute is 'hidden', whose name attribute is 'val', and which appears as the first element in its enclosing (form) tag".
I think it means grab the value attribute of an input whose type attribute is 'hidden' in addition its name attribute is 'val' and its position amongst its siblings is 1 ( first I believe, not sure if 0 is the start in xpath ).
<input type="hidden" name="val" value="test">
<input type="hidden" name="foo">
Related
I have a problem as mentioned in the title.
The input field is of type number.
The th:field refers to an int attribute in the database.
I want my placeholder to be visible instead of the default 0 value.
<input id="courseCredits" name="courseCredits" th:field="*{courseCredits}" class="form-control" placeholder="Course Credits" type="number" min="0" required autofocus/>
If you don't want the default of 0 you can't use an int. Instead use an Integer with null for empty.
Change 'int' to 'Integer' in your entity class.
i have a text box in my web application,Where i need to give input. I am trying to find the xpath of the text box. the following error is thrown.
Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"
HTML code:
<div class="input">
<input id="firstName" class="long" type="text" maxlength="50" value="" name="firstName
I want the xpath for firstName textbox.
//input[#type='text']
And this for generally targeting a text input (what I was after)
Try this one:
//input[#id='firstName']
Explanation:
// search on all levels
input for element nodes with the name of "input"
[#id='firstName'] having an attribute (#) with the name of "id" and a value of "firstName"
at least 3 simple ways to get this:
1)Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[#id='firstName']"));
2)Driver.FindElement(By.Id("firstName"));
3)Driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("#firstName"));
//*[text()[contains(.,'firstName')]]
finding by text would always work.
I have the following HTML generated with an AjaxFormLoop.
<div id="phones">
<div class="t-forminjector tapestry-forminjector" id="rowInjector_13b87fdd8b6">
<input id="number_13b87fdd8b6" name="number_13b87fdd8b7" type="text"/>
<a id="removerowlink_13b87fdd8b6" href="#" name="removerowlink_13b87fdd8b6">remove</a>
</div>
<div class="t-forminjector tapestry-forminjector" id="rowInjector_13b87fdda70" style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 251);">
<input id="number_13b87fdda70" name="number_13b87fdda70" type="text" />
<a id="removerowlink_13b87fdda70" href="#" name="removerowlink_13b87fdda70">remove</a>
</div>
</div>
I'm trying to access the second input field in child 2 using a partial ID, however I have not been successful in getting this to work.
What I've tried thus far.
String path = "//input[contains(#id,'number_')][2]";
String path = "(//input[contains(#id,'number_')])[2]";
I can't even access input 1 using 1 instead of 2, however if I remove [2] and only use
String path = "//input[contains(#id,'number_')]";
I'm able to access the first field without issue.
If I use the exact id, I'm able to access either field without issue.
I do need to use the id if possible as there is many more fields in each t-forminjector row that are not present in this example.
Implementation with Selenium.
final String path = "(//input[starts-with(#id,'quantity_')])[2]";
new Wait() {
#Override
public boolean until() {
return isElementPresent(path);
}
}.wait("Element should be present", TIMEOUT);
Resolved
I'm noticing I can't seem to use the following starts-with / contains to locate any element within to dom, however if I use a complete id, it works.
//Partial ID - fails
//*[starts-with(#id,"quantity_")]
//Exact ID - works
//*[starts-with(#id,"quantity_-112409575185705")]
The generated output you pasted here simply does not contain the string number_ anywhere in it. It does contain Number_ -- note the capital N -- but it's not the first part of the string. Perhaps you meant something like this (which at least selects something):
(//input[contains(#id, 'Number_')])[2]
Or:
(//input[starts-with(#id,'catalogNumber_')])[2]
As Iwburk stated, this was a namespace issue. According to the Selenium API,
http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-remote-control/0.9.0/doc/java/com/thoughtworks/selenium/Selenium.html
while using an xpath expression, I needed to used xpath=xpathExpression changing my query string to:
String path = "xpath=(//input[starts-with(#id,'quantity_')])[2]";
I found a related post here,
Element is found in XPath Checker but not in Selenium
you can't access it because you are not locating the element as to be unique in the page.
use an xpath that makes it unique ,
- you're xpath look ok .
more info here
http://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/appendix_locating_techniques.jsp
Besides the selenium syntax problem there's an xpath issue related to markup structure.
xpath 1: //input[starts-with(#id,'number_')][1]
xpath 2: (//input[starts-with(#id,'number_')])[1]
In the sample below xpath 1 will return 2 nodes (incorrect) and xpath 2 will be correct because input nodes are not siblings so surrounding parenthesis are needed to refer to the resulting nodeset
<div id="phones">
<div>
<input id="number_1" name="number_1" type="text"/>
</div>
<div>
<input id="number_2" name="number_2" type="text" />
</div>
</div>
Result without parenthesis
/ > xpath //input[starts-with(#id,'number_')][1]
Object is a Node Set :
Set contains 2 nodes:
1 ELEMENT input
ATTRIBUTE id
TEXT
content=number_1
ATTRIBUTE name
TEXT
content=number_1
ATTRIBUTE type
TEXT
content=text
2 ELEMENT input
ATTRIBUTE id
TEXT
content=number_2
ATTRIBUTE name
TEXT
content=number_2
ATTRIBUTE type
TEXT
content=text
In this next sample, parenthesis will not make a difference because nodes are siblings
<div id="other">
<input id="pre_1" type="text"/>
<input id="pre_2" type="text" />
<div>a</div>
</div>
With parenthesis
/ > xpath (//input[starts-with(#id,'pre_')])[1]
Object is a Node Set :
Set contains 1 nodes:
1 ELEMENT input
ATTRIBUTE id
TEXT
content=pre_1
ATTRIBUTE type
TEXT
content=text
Without parenthesis
/ > xpath //input[starts-with(#id,'pre_')][1]
Object is a Node Set :
Set contains 1 nodes:
1 ELEMENT input
ATTRIBUTE id
TEXT
content=pre_1
ATTRIBUTE type
TEXT
content=text
Testing was done with xmllint shell
xmllint --html --shell test.html
hi i am using codeigniter . i have a form , there i add hidden fields dynamically . so every hidden field is <input type='hidden' name='hidden' value="+$(this).attr('title')+"> so the name is equal .
the problem is when i submit the form and try to get my hiden field values i can only get one hidden field value , because the names are same
i print my form values
print_r($this->input->post());
i have 2 hidden fields but i get only one
Array
(
[hidden] => march
[textbox] => march
[mysubmit] => Submit
)
i can change the name dynamically of hidden field when creating , but then i don't know exactly the name of my hidden field ,
how can i get hidden field values with same name ?? is there any way to get form values other than by name ?? i tried and can not find an answer , please help .............
You'll need to use brackets in your name attributes:
<input type='hidden' name='hidden[]'>
<!-- ^^^^ -->
This will allow PHP to accept multiple inputs with the same name as an array of values, so in this case, $_POST['hidden'] will return an array of strings.
By default they are indexed starting at 0, so $_POST['hidden'][0] will get you the first one, $_POST['hidden'][1] will get you the second, etc., however - you can explicitly index them if it's easier for you, either with numbers or strings.
<input type='hidden' name='hidden[first]'>
<input type='hidden' name='hidden[second]'>
Or:
<input type='hidden' name='hidden[0]'>
<input type='hidden' name='hidden[1]'>
You can nest these as deep as you want like hidden[first][1][], and they will be treated similarly to a PHP array when you get the $_POST values, but you need the brackets in the HTML.
Without brackets, only the last field's value will be available in the $_POST array. This is a PHP feature, Codeigniter can't do anything about it.
I want to restrict entry of input onto a field of type number such that input cannot be outside range of min-max specified in the html.
input type = "number" min = "1" max = "5"
Is there a way of outputting the number field without the text box and i would rather not use
"input type = range"
as slider does not show value currently selected
Please help.
Thanks.
Based on what you said, I suggest using a simple input text field and check it's value validity on submission via JavaScript (as #Kush mentions above). You could also check it as the user types, or moves focus away from that field.
<form>
Only 1 to 100 <input type="text" name="number" pattern="\d{1,2}(?!\d)|100" title="one to hundreed only">
<input type="submit">
</form>