I am using Selenium Protractor and want to select all elements from the following list except one that contains text "Cat" and then perform some operations on the remaining ones.
<div class="mainDiv">
<div class="childDiv">Dog</div>
<div class="childDiv">Goat</div>
<div class="childDiv">Bird</div>
<div class="childDiv">Cat</div>
<div class="childDiv">Zebra</div>
</div>
Is there a selector by cssContainingText (or some other) in which I can give a condition to select all elements except the one containing text "Cat"?
You can create a List selecting all the elements except one that contains text Cat using the following Locator Strategy:
xpath:
//div[#class='mainDiv']//div[#class='childDiv'][not(contains(.,'Cat'))]
When using Selenium and css-selectors:
The :contains pseudo-class isn't in the CSS Spec and is not supported by either Firefox or Chrome (even outside WebDriver). You can find a detailed discussion in selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSelectorException with “span:contains('string')”
However, if the elements always appears within the DOM Tree in a specific order, e.g. Cat always at the forth child, you can also use:
cssSelector:
div.mainDiv div.childDiv:not(:nth-child(4))
Reference
You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:
While fetching all links,Ignore logout link from the loop and continue navigation in selenium java
How to write a CSS Selector selecting elements NOT having a certain attribute?
Related
Quick one, i am trying to avoid using xpath and using css selectors due to performance issues xpath can have so i would like to know the right approach of locating for example "A" in the list
<div class="input-search-suggests" xpath="1">
<div class="input-search-suggests-item">A</div>
<div class="input-search-suggests-item">B</div>
<div class="input-search-suggests-item">C</div>
</div>
Currently i am locating A using xpath / span but it would be indeed sufficient locating all elements and then grabbing A from the list that have same class which is "input-search-suggests-item"
#FindBy(xpath = "//span[contains(text(),'A')]")
CSS_SELECTOR does not have support for direct text what xpath has.
What this means is, for the below xpath
xpath = "//span[contains(text(),'A')]"
based on text A you can not write a css selector.
Instead to locate A using css selector, you can do :
div.input-search-suggests > div.input-search-suggests-item
In Selenium something like this :
#FindBy(cssSelector= "div.input-search-suggests > div.input-search-suggests-item")
Even though it will have 3 matching nodes, but findElement will take the first web element.
Also you may wanna look at nth-child(n)
div.input-search-suggests > nth-child(1)
to make use of index to locate A, B, C
Here is the Reference Link
Unable to find CSS selector using :contains().
I have followed the instructions from https://www.browserstack.com/guide/css-selectors-in-selenium
at #5 – Inner text
but still, no result is shown, Can someone please help me/Tell me how to find Web element using text, CSS only
Here is Sample Dom
<ul id='id'>
<li class='class'>
<a class='class_class2' href="/Myaccount/summary">"Summary"</a>
<li class='class'>
<a class='class_class2' href="/Myaccount/Profile">"Profile"</a>
</ul>
Here : a:contains('Summary')
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference
https://stackoverflow.com/a/4781167/6793637
Contains: is no longer available
you should use xpath to find elements using innerText
xpath:
//a[contains(text(),"Summary")]
You can get exact match as
//a[text()="Summary"]
The :contains pseudo-class isn't in the CSS Spec and is not supported by either Firefox or Chrome (even outside WebDriver).
You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussion in:
selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSelectorException with "span:contains('string')"
Finding link using text in CSS Selector is not working
Alternative
To locate the element with text as Summary you can use either of the following css-selectors:
Using first-child:
ul#id li:first-child > a
Using nth-child():
ul#id > li:nth-child(1) > a
tl; dr
References:
CSS selector :contains doesn't work with Selenium 2.0a7
css pseudo-class :contains() no longer allows anchors
The page contains a multi-select dropdown (similar to the one below)
The html code looks like the below:
<div class="button-and-dropdown-div>
<button class="Multi-Select-Button">multi-select button</button>
<div class="dropdown-containing-options>
<label class="dropdown-item">
<input class="checkbox">
"
Name
"
</label>
<label class="dropdown-item">
<input class="checkbox">
"
Address
"
</label>
</div>
After testing in firefox developer tools, I was finally able to figure out the xPath needed in order to get the text for a certain label ...
The below XPath statement will return the the text "Phone"
$x("(//label[#class='dropdown-item'])[4]/text()[2]")
The label contains multiple text items (although it looks like there is just one text object when looking at the UI) in the label element. There are actually two text elements within each label element. The first is always empty, the second contains the actual text (as shown in the below image when observing the element through the Firefox developer tool's console window):
Question:
How do I modify the XPath shown above in order to use in Selenium's FindElement?
Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("?"));
I know how to use the contains tool, but apparently not with more complex XPath statements. I was pretty sure one of the below would work but they did not (develop tool complain of a syntax error):
$x("(//label[#class='dropdown-item' and text()[2][contains(., 'Name')]]")
$x("(//label[#class='dropdown-item' and contains(text()[2], 'Name')]")
I am using the 'contains' in order to avoid white-space conflicts.
Additional for learning purposes (good for XPath debugging):
just in case anyone comes across this who is new to XPath, I wanted to show what the data structure of these label objects looked like. You can explore the data structure of objects within your webpage by using the Firefox Console window within the developer tools (F12). As you can see, the label element contains three sub-items; text which is empty, then the inpput checkbox, then some more text which has the actual text in it (not ideal). In the picture below, you can see the part of the webpage that corresponds to the label data structure.
If you are looking to find the element that contains "Name" given the HTML above, you can use
//label[#class='dropdown-item'][contains(.,'Name')]
So finally got it to work. The Firefox developer environment was correct when it stated there was a syntax problem with the XPath strings.
The following XPath string finally returned the desired result:
$x("//label[#class='dropdown-item' and contains(text()[2], 'Name')]")
I have an issue clicking on the below HTML:
<div id="P7d2205a39cb24114b60b80b3c14cc45b_1_26iT0C0x0" style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:500;" class="Ab73b430b430a49ebb0a0e8a49c8d71af3"><a tabindex="1" style="cursor:pointer;" onclick="var rp=$get('ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ReportViewer1_ctl10_ReportControl');if(rp&&rp.control)rp.control.InvokeReportAction('Toggle','26iT0C0x0');return false;" onkeypress="if(event.keyCode == 13 || event.which == 13){var rp=$get('ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ReportViewer1_ctl10_ReportControl');if(rp&&rp.control)rp.control.InvokeReportAction('Toggle','26iT0C0x0');}return false;"><img border="0" src="/Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd?OpType=Resource&Version=10.0.30319.1&Name=Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.HtmlRenderer.RendererResources.TogglePlus.gif" alt="+"></a> 2013</div>
I have used the below script to click anchor inside a div tag. For the above html code it is not fixed only end part of id example "26iT0C0x0" is fixed. The script that I have used is:
WebElement e1=wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//div[ends-with(#id,'26iT0C0x0')]/a")));
e1.click();
You can use the 'contains' method within an xpath lookup:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[contains(#id,'26iT0C0x0')]")
I would recommend you to consider CSS selector alternative as CSS working faster, than xpath.
So 'contains' in attribute in CSS stands for '*=', for example
if we want to find attribute by 'CSS' ending in this: <htmlTag A="blablaCSS" > we need do the following:
String CSSselector="htmlTag[A*=CSS]";
and you get this element searched.
So considering your example CSS selector be like:
String cssSearched="div[id*=26iT0C0x0] a";
also try to click not on link - a
but on parent div as well:
String cssSearched="div[id*=26iT0C0x0]";
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(cssSearched));
hope this works for you.
As Mark Rwolands already mentioned: the xpath-Function 'ends-with()' isn't supported in Selenium 2.
Also, if you maybe consider to use chromeDriver in the future, I would recommend clicking the image, not the anchor, see:
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/help/clicking-issues
edit:
Also your IDs are looking generated. I wouldn't count on them for a stable test-environment.
If your prepend a FORM element with a P element, elements below the DIV in the example will not be selected!
<P><FORM id=f ...
<INPUT ...>
<DIV><INPUT (this element is not selectable)
</DIV>
</FORM>
No $('#f INPUT').events will happen in IE for the second input above
Try the testcase at: http://jsfiddle.net/jorese/Bzc7M/
In IE you will receive an alert=3, remove the P element in front of the FORM element and you get the expected alert=5. In Chrome|FF you get alert=5 as expected.
Can somebody explain this?
Your HTML code is not valid, it contains a few errors, the reason why some browsers render it is that they tolerate invalid code to some extent by trying to guess what the developer originally wanted to write.
The div element can be used to group almost any elements together. Indeed, it can contain almost any other element, unlike p, which can only contain inline elements.
Use div instead:
http://jsfiddle.net/mshMX/
Sitepoint reference: http://reference.sitepoint.com/html/p
W3 reference http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/dtd.html
A former StackOverflow question about the same problem: Why <p> tag can't contain <div> tag inside it?