Is there any other way to find out the count of webelements present in a webpage without using "findElements()" method?
This Question is asked in Interview. So I would like to know whether it is possible to get the count of Webelements without using findElements().
Update to #mate and #custom answer,
using xpath, to extract the number.
driver.executeScript(() => $x('count(//div)'));
if there is 25 div elements, will return 25 as a number.
Here's one way:
Go to DevTools
Enter $x('//*') to console
You will get the number of HTML elements
You could use WebDriver.prototype.executeScript which lets you execute some JavaScript code. That code can either be a function or a string:
driver.executeScript(() => document.querySelectorAll('*').length);
PS: I'm using the JS flavour of selenium-webdriver.
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I'm looping from a diferents urls trying to get some information from some movies
I'm trying to get the writers. I am not extracting each csselector because perhaps in some other movie there is not the same number of scriptwriters and it would give an error. For this reason I want to extract the elements that are bound to the tag. For example I want to get all the elements of the tag "a" (image attached)
I have the following code but it's not working:
driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME,"a")
I don't know if there is any other way without using tag
url movie = "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7740496/?ref_=watch_fanfav_tt_t_4"
I think you are using python. Try to use one of this methods:
driver.find_elements_by_xpath('(//span[contains(text(),"Guión")])[1]/../div//a')
driver.find_elements(By.XPATH,'(//span[contains(text(),"Guión")])[1]/../div//a')
Check selenium documentation: Locating Elements
My result with java code it returns 3 elements as you want.
I am using Selenium WebDriver and I have number of items on a page and each item on page is a separate form type.
I have saved all of these form elements in a list and I am iterating over every item in an attempt to get the name of the element by using the "alt" attribute.
However when I try to get the "name" attribute from the input element it is always returning the first input tag found on that page, not the name attribute of the element I have currently selected.
The syntax I am using is:
((Webdriver imgtags.get(i)).findelement(By.xpath("//input[#name='qty']")).sendKeys ("100");
I have also tried to get the id from the tag by using:
((Webdriver imgtags.get(i)).getAttribute("id");
It's returning a blank value, but it should return the value of the id attribute in that input tag.
I also tried to get the id by using .bytagname but as id is an attribute it is not accessible
Try:
(driver) findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(local-name(), 'input') and contains(#name, 'qty')]")).sendKeys("100");
To answer the comment by #rrd: to be honest, I have no idea why OP uses ((Webdriver imgtags.get(i)). I don't know what that is. Normally, I just use driver.findElement[...]
Hoping that he knows what works in his framework :D
Selenium Xpath handling is not fully compliant and it does not always treat // as a synonym of descendant-or-self.
Instead try tweaking your code to use the following Xpath:
((Webdriver imgtags.get(i)).findElement(By.xpath("./descendant-or-self::input[#name='qty']")).sendKeys("100");
This will base your search off the currently selected WebElement and then look for any descendants that have a name attribute with a value of "qty".
I would also suggest storing your imgtags array as an array of WebElement e.g.
List<WebElement> imgtags = new ArrayList<>();
This is a much better idea than casting to WebDriver to be able to use .findElement(). This will cause you problems at some point in the future.
I am using XPath to find exact value:
//h5[#class='familyName productFamilyName'][contains(text(),'Dozers ')]
but it was failing because in my application there are 2 elements with text values "Dozers " and "Dozers wheel" which is come under same class.
I can't use id locators,because it is dynamically generating in my application like //div[#id="482"]/div/div[1]/h5.
Please suggest me any solution.
If you want to match element with exact innerHTML value just use
//h5[#class='familyName productFamilyName'][text()='Dozers')]
or
//h5[#class='familyName productFamilyName'][text()='Dozers wheel')]
Depending on HTML structure you might need to use [.='Dozers'] or
[normalize-space(.)='Dozers'] instead of [text()='Dozers']
Below in my code
driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.id("file")));
Above line is not running
There is various way to switch to frame. Please share the HTML code if you need a exact code to switch to your respective application. you can try with below method. Better use index if your frame do not any name etc
driver.switchTo().frame(index)
replace index with 0 first and if it not work then try with 1 and then 2 etc one by one
More details
driver.switchTo().frame() has multiple overloads.
driver.switchTo().frame(name or id)
Here your iframe doesn't have id or name, so not for you.
driver.switchTo().frame(index)
This is the last option to choose, because using index is not stable enough as you could imagine. If this is your only iframe in the page, try
driver.switchTo().frame(0)
driver.switchTo().frame(iframe_element)
The most common one. You locate your iframe like other elements, then pass it into the method.
Here locating it by title attributes seems to be the best.
driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("iframe[title='Fill Quote']")));
// driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//iframe[#title='Fill Quote']")));
most probably, your iframe is not visible or your window is not active.
in Python:
driver.switch_to_default_content()
wait.until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it("yourFrame"))
in Java:
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt(By.tagName("yourFrame")));
I am getting different results for the same locator. For example
//table[#id='foo']
returns true when testing ElementPresent, but returns 0 for XpathCount. In Selenium v1.0.10 IDE the Find button highlights the correct element for both functions. Any ideas on what could be causing this?
Notes:
We have frames on the page EDIT: This is probably the problem. Bounty to verification.
There are many tables on the page, but only one with #id of "foo"
Firefox 3.6
Happens in both IDE and Java RC
Well, this is not a verification more of a non-verification.
I use Selenium to test a GUI with frames. To make isElementPresent and getXpathCount to work I always have to select a frame first with selectFrame (even to get isElementPresent to work correctly). By just opening an URL no frame at all seems to be selected.
This is what the HTML and corresponding selectFrame code looks like:
<frameset id="mainframeset"><frame name="nav" id="nav" src....
selenium.selectFrame("nav");
Use these XPath expressions:
boolean(//table[#id='foo'])
and
count(//table[#id='foo'])
In case there is a table element whose id attribute's value is "foo", then the first expression above should evalute to true() and the second expression above should evalute to a positive integer.
Not really a direct answer to the question, but a workaround if you are reading this and want to loop over the elements. Use isElementPresent in the for loop like this:
for(int i = 2; selenium.isElementPresent("//table[#id='foo']//tr["+i+"]"); i++)
{
selenium.getText("//table[#id='foo']//tr["+i+"]//td["+columnNum+"]");
}
Note that we start i at 2 since XPath is indexed from 1 and we want to skip the header