I am trying to find an unique xpath for the below element, please advice if there are any better xpaths to make it for general text as I have currently given for that specific name.
<td tabindex="4" style="text-align: left;" title="name" class="">Name</td>
xpath i am using: //td[#title='name']
here if the name is changed with something else in the code, this wouldn't work, could someone help me identify unique xpath which works in general for any text. Thanks!
You can concatenate (using and / or) multiple attributes of element to find the element precisely .
By.xpath("//td[#title= 'name' and contains(text(), 'Name')]")
However we need to see more details of the code and your DOM of page to find element.
There will always be some element which will never change in the page(like name of table) using that as a relative point ,we can refer to the row of the table.
the simplest way to find the XPath of any element is to go to the developer options and select the markup of the element you want XPath of.
Right Click -> Copy -> XPath
I believe this is the simplest way. And you will also where you are doing wrong.
Screenshot attached for your reference.
I have used the general syntax - "//td[text()='{}']" and passing the name parameter when i define a method so that it won't be specific to one and others can test using the same locator with their name changed when someone else uses the testcase.
Thanks everyone for your response!
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I am wondering if below is achievable using xpath
Given:
<label for="pt1:sc">Select Country</label>
<select id="pt1:sc">....</select>
Requirement:
I want to find select element using single xpath expression like below,
bcs ids are dynamic and always available in attribute 'for'.
//label[text()='Select Country']/#for//*[#id=#for]
Can we pass attribute value(here for attribute of label) in xpath, further down the path to find element.
Please do not suggest alternative using siblings, child, id or selenium get-attribute etc.
Thanks,
You can use something like this to select an element with an attribute value which refers to another attribute located in another element :
//*[#id=//label[text()='Select Country']/#for]
I'm not sure how it's going to work with your actual html, but it works on the example in the question:
//label[text()='Select Country'][#for=//select/#id]
I'm trying to get an xpath so I can click a link as per href below:
<div id="viewIFL" style="">
<div class="moneycentrallink">
Track your cash in one place with
Money Central
</div>
</div>
When I use the below in ChroPath:
//a[contains(text(),'Money Central')]
It returns 2 elements matching for xpath="1" and xpath="2".
I then tried:
//a[contains(text(),'Money Central') and #xpath='2']
and at first it resolved to just 1 element found but when I tried searching again it returned 0 elements found. Also this does not work via Selenium either (returns unable to find element).
Any ideas what's going on and how I can find the unique xpath to clickable element? Thanks
Don't use xpath attribute in your xpath as ChroPath adds the xpath attribute in element to tell the user what is matching occurrence of that element. For example- If ChroPath added xpath=5 i.e. this element is the 5th for the corresponding xpath.
For your scenario, please inspect the element and see what ChroPath gives the relative xpath.
Also you can try //div[contains(text(),'Track your cash')]//a[contains(text(),'Money Central')]
Your problem is badly formulated.
There is always a unique path to an element of the form *[1]/*[4]/*[1]/*[2]. The problem is that this path isn't very useful because it only works if you know exactly what is in the document, and if you knew exactly what was in the document, you wouldn't need XPath to find it.
So you're actually looking for an XPath that will work on a set of possible documents in which some parts are known (fixed) and others are unknown (variable). To find an XPath that works on every document in that set, you need to define what is known and what is unknown. Looking at one sample document isn't going to tell you that.
In a selenium script Sorting a dropdown using
new Select(driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("select[title=\"Sort By\"]"))).selectByVisibleText("Name");
Can anybody please explain me this part cssSelector("select[title=\"Sort By\"]" of above statement.
Thanks!
cssSelector("select[title=\"Sort By\"]")
this is one of the technique to locate web element/elements.
You must have heard about xpath, which is one of the way to locate element/elements in a web page.
Further more , select is tag in HTML. title is attribute and Sort By is value of attribute.
Just like this :
HTML :
<select id="sel" class="drop-down" title="Sort By">
<options>..</options>
<options>..</options>
<options>..</options>
</select>
Now If you have to write cssSelector , you can write like this :
tagname[attribute="attribute value"]
select[id="sel"]
or
select[class="drop-dwon"]
or
select[title="Sort By"]
Hope this will be helpful !
new Select(driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("select[title=\"Sort By\"]"))).selectByVisibleText("Name");
You are selecting by CSS selector https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.asp. The alternative is XPath which is more powerful but harder to learn.
What this part By.cssSelector("select[title=\"Sort By\"]") does is select all select elements that have title attributes set equal to "Sort By". Although by prefixing driver.findElement( you are requesting just one element, the first. At least you would be if it was python, Java might differ but was not in your question nor tags.
I'm trying to find Approvals in the following html and cant seem to get it. I've tried:
//td[*/text()='Approvals']
//td[contains(#class, 'Approvals')]
any help would be appreciated
<td class="ThemeGrayMainItem" name="cmSubMenuID4"
onmouseup="cmItemMouseUp (this,1,'cmSubMenuID4',0,32)"
onmouseout="cmItemMouseOut (this,1,'cmSubMenuID4',0,32)"
onmousedown="cmItemMouseDown (this,1,'cmSubMenuID4',0,32)"
onmouseover="cmItemMouseOverOpenSub (this,1,'cmSubMenuID4',0,32)">Approvals
</td>
You may use contains():
//td[contains(., 'Approvals')]
where . refers to the element's text.
You can also apply additional checks, for instance, on the class name:
//td[#class='ThemeGrayMainItem' and contains(., 'Approvals')]
I would use the following xpath:
//td[contains(text(),'Approvals')]
or if you wanted to be more specific:
//td[#class='ThemeGrayMainItem'][contains(text(),'Approvals')]
i need to click on dat element:
<span id="act_action9" class="" onclick="openDialog('export', event)">
text
</span>
i cant click on id,because it is dynamic. After a click i am getting window with some settings.
You should use xpath in order to click this element, so you could add an expression that unequivocally identify this element.
Could you please include more HTML code, because just with the code included is not enough to create a xpath expression.
I recommend this tutorial to start doing good xpath expressions:
http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/
See example for dynamic xpath
By.xpath("//span[#id [contains(.,'act_action')]]")
Great xpath cheatsheets: http://extract-web-data.com/5-best-xpath-cheat-sheets-and-quick-references/
You can also use xpath like following(assuming only digit is dynamic):
".//span[contains(#id, 'act_action')]"
As ID is dynamic, you can use xpath for text which is inside span.
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[text()='text']").click();
Or if part of ID remain common, then you can use
//span[contains(#id,'act')]