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Im struggling to write the correct CSS selctor for my selenium program can someone give me adive on where to learn the correct paths, as i dont want to keep asking.
first = WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div[#class='grKglT']")))
first.click()
What am i doing wrong long and what docs should i look at to help me in the long term
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Button HTML Code How would I write the command to click the xpath of a button?
the Xpath is
html/body/div[1]/div[1]/form/div/div[1]/div/div/a[1]/button
would it be
driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[1]/div[1]/form/div/div[1]/div/div/a[1]/button")).click();
Using XPath in this way is "easy" but is very fragile. You'd be better served getting the element in a different way, e.g. by CSS Selector "button.search-button".
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("button.search-button")).click();
Learn more about CSS Selectors online. Here's a good reference guide, https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors/#selectors. There are many tutorials on the web, but here's a good one to start with, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Getting_started/Selectors.
What command in webdriver should I use to make sure it clicks the specific text i.e Last Month
the code is
<div class="dt_padded_medium_div">
<a onclick="setLastMonth()" href="#">Last Month</a>
I tried xpath by using firepath but still doesnt work
it was
//*[#id='block-2']/div/div[3]/table/tbody/tr[1]/td[5]
I used
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='block-2']/div/div[3]/table/tbody/tr[1]/td[5]")).click();
but still didnt work, am I missing something?
Update:
Got the Code working guys, thanks for the help!
If there is only one 'a' element in the page with this text, try this XPath:
//a[text()='Last Month']
If there are more than one element, please, post the full HTML tree else we're unable to write a xpath without know the tag path and ensure it will work
Are you sure your xPath is correct?
Install FirePath on Firefox and experiment with your xPath as on screenshot below.
Also, that does look like a long and brittle xPath. Look up xPath cheat sheets to learn how to make your xPath more robust.
In your case I would imagine something like:
//*[#id='block-2']/descendant::a[text()='Last Month']
(get the element with a particular ID, then search for an <a></a> in that element, no matter how deep, with a particular text)
In your question, you have used a "id" that is not shown in your code, where is #id='block-2'. It is possible for you to have used the wrong id. For us to help you, can you please provide the whole HTML code?
What I can suggest based on the information you have provided is:
Making sure the Xpath you have provided is unique, there is an add-on for Firefox called Firebug you can use. It will help you find out the xpath you are after fast and easy. What you need to do is basically:
download firefox and install it;
download firebug add-on and install it to firefox;
you will notice there is a small bug symbol to the top right of your tool bar, please enable it;
you will see a console pops out, click on inspection button and click on any web element you want to inspect and its html code will be highlighted in the console;
right click on the highlighted code and choose to copy its xpath to clipboard. This way you will never get your xpath wrong.
Here is a quick tutorial:
http://www.wikihow.com/Find-XPath-Using-Firebug
P.S. There are more than one way to locate a webelement, please consider using the following options as well:
Css selector
class name
id
This link will direct you to an awesome cheat cheet.
http://scraping.pro/res/xpath-cheat/xpath_css_dom_recipes.pdf
Hope it helps.
Please try to use below code to click on the text Last Month
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//a[text()='Last Month']")).click();
Hope this helps.
You can use below code to click on the link containing the text 'Last Month'
driver.findElement(By.linkText("Last Month")).click();
First of all make sure that your xpath works correctly, try to use more specific xpath other than just td[5] or smthn like that, for example above could be like:
//div[#class='dt_padded_medium_div']/a[#href] - meaning, we need to find <div> element with specific parent and within it <a> element that has href property
There are a few possibilities.
If you're site doesn´t get rewritten to much you could just go for the link name via
driver.findElement(By.linkName("Last Month");
You could also go for any of the attributes if your site is subject of many rewrites like this and just put "href" and "#" or "onclick" and "setLastMonth()" as arguments when calling it.
static WebElement getLink(String Attribute, String Value /*String ItemText*/){
List<WebElement> Elements = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));
for(int Counter = 0, Counter < Elements.size(); Counter++){
if(Elements.get(Counter).getAttribute(Attribute).contains(Value) /* && Elements.get(Counter).getText().equals(ItemText){
return Elements.get(Counter);
}
}
return null;
}
If you remove the comments it will go completely sure and check for the Attributes and the displayed text.
Code is below
<button type="submit" class="login-button">Login</button>
In selenium I tried below code:-
driver.findElement(By.classname("Login")).click();
please help me in this code without Xpath
Your classname is login-button not Login
driver.findElement(By.classname("login-button")).click();
You can use also partialLinkText
driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("Login")).click();
partialLinkText is looking the Sub-String on HTML DOM
You can use also linkText
driver.findElement(By.linkText("Login")).click();
LinkText is looking the same String on HTML DOM
Using CSS-Selector
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("button[class='login-button']")).click();
Hope it will help you :)
I always Prefer Cssselector rather than Xpath, it's up to the user to choose which they want and what they are comfortable with finding element.
The below link will be very useful if you want to know about CSSSELECTOR.
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.asp
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".login-button")).click();
My suggestion would be Please inspect element and open console
$('.login-button')
Try this one until you get the required element you want. In that way you will be more flexible in getting the most required element.
Hej Guys
I an using google visualization api to draw stacked bar chart. Its all fine but now i want to test it with selenium but having a hard time finding the elements in the google chart.
For example i want to click on the chart element but everytime i try to find an element by xpath i get exception "OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException: The element could not be found"
I read that with selenium its tricky to click on the svg images.
Is there anybody who know a solution cuz i m kind of desprate and i havent find a suitable solution on the net by myself.
My chart looks like this:
http://i48.tinypic.com/21o4swx.png
What i am trying todo is:
webdriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://localhost:59777/Tests/TestsMainView");
IWebElement element = webdriver.FindElement(By.XPath("/html/body/div/div[2]/div[2]/iframe/html/body/div/svg/g[2]/g/g[2]/rect[5]"));
Actions myAction = new Actions(webdriver);
myAction.Click(element).Perform();
Thread.Sleep(9999);
Thanks :)
Here is some advice that may help you. First your second line of code is should be
WebElement element = webdriver.FindElement(By.xpath("//img[contains(#src,'http://i48.tinypic.com/21o4swx.png')]"))
You had "IWebElement" (this was probably just a typo in your question). I changed the way the element is found searching for matching element instead of starting at the top level and working down. This is a better practice to narrow down the element you are attempting to interact with so that changes to the code don't instantly break your test. Also unless you start an xpath expression off with "//" or "xpath=" selenium Webdriver will not recognize it so even if your path never changed selenium Webdriver wouldn't be able to find it.
If I understand what you are trying to do then you can also remove lines 3-5 and replace them with the following,
element.click();
This will have selenium Webdriver zoom in on the chart provided by your link. I hope this helps
I noticed xpath cannot select anything within an svg tag. I managed to find elements using className or tagName selectors instead or you could even try cssSelectors but I am not sure about that one. Note that you can still use xpath to access parents of a node inside an svg using:
By.xpath("..");
Hope that will help.
Can anyone tell me what is the exact flow of taking out xpath in Selenium-IDE.
After trying alot by putting alerts i m not getting how to take out the exact xpath.
Selenium displays the xpath according to xpath:position and some others ways also but i want to add the xpath traversing from html i.e the topmost position.How can i do that???
I've come to prefer CSS selectors over Xpath. The IDE won't create them for you, but with a little practice they're very easy to write. As a bonus, they make your tests much easier to maintain.
For example, let's say you have a button with the text "save". The locator would be:
css=button:contains('save')
Check out http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/ for more detail.
I use XPather to find out the xpath. Then I use the resulting path in the Selenium IDE to cross verify. You could also use other tools like XPath Checker or Firebug to do the same.
Write 1 line of code in javascript:
LocatorBuilders.order = ['id', 'link', 'name', 'dom:name', 'xpath:link', 'xpath:img','xpath:attributes', 'xpath:href', 'dom:index', 'xpath:position'];
change it the way you want (not all of them has to be there)
see:
chrome://selenium-ide/content/locatorBuilders.js
save as your_file.js
add your_file.js as "Selenium Core extensions" in the IDE options
Firefinder for Firebug helps matching both CSS and XPath locators
In general, with Firebug installed, you can Inspect Elements for their HTML and DOM structures to determine what best locator you can build.
the best way to find x PAth is :
open developer tool bar in chrome:
Find the x Path displayed below :
You can directly copy and paste this x path in your script