Use case
I need to click on ANSWER button as shown in screen below
What I Tried ?
I used Appium desktop to inspect element , but this Answer button does not seems to be effectively identified by it.
Having little experience in creating XPATH, I tried with diffrent combinations of XPATH
//android.widget.FrameLayout[contains(#text,'ANSWER')]")
//android.widget.ScrollView[contains(#text,'ANSWER')]")
//android.widget.Button[#resource-id='android:id/action0']
android:id/action0
xpath=//*[#text='ANSWER']
But none of them are working!!
Is there anyway of doing it ?
Related
I am trying to automate Salesforce application Using Selenium and getting NoSuchelementException though XPATH is correct and valid for particular object. When i have searched the issue, it might be reason for Shadow DOM.
For EX:
So XAPTH i have written like,
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#name='Name']")).sendKeys("Jams");
or
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#id='input-299']")).sendKeys("Jams");
This XPATH is highlighting in Console as well. But while automating it throws nosuchelement error.
So while checking for ShadowDOM option, am getting option like this for Name Object.
#shadow-root(user-agent)
Shadowroot DIV
-- nothing mentioned in div. it just open and closed tags.
How to automate this?
You can check if there are any iframes in your Dom. Simply do //iframe in your page developer mode(F12)> elements tab > search (Ctrf+F) area. If there are any, you will get the number of iframes.
Now if your textbox is in any of iframe use below code to go inside particular iframe first
driver.switch_to.frame("<name or Id of frame>")
then come out to frame use below:
driver.switch_to.parent_frame()
Also, if the issue is not related to frames check below for shadow-root related issue:
you can check below for shadow-root element ( Question is for Java, but you can co-relate):
How to interact with the elements within #shadow-root (open) while Clearing Browsing Data of Chrome Browser using cssSelector
The website contents are mostly created now using javascript. You may have to wait for certain elements to load before doing anything to it.
https://seleniumbyexamples.github.io/wait
I am trying to explore log In button xpath with this site https://www.componence.com/login, by just recording and play back.Then I tried to get it through firepath and chrome browser default xpath copier.
But it looks like every time submit button xpath get changed with page load. I got following xpath for "Sign IN" button.
.//*[#id='yui_patched_v3_11_0_1_1487250469606_202']
.//*[#id='yui_patched_v3_11_0_1_1487251369606_202']
.//*[#id='yui_patched_v3_11_0_1_1487250229606_202']
.//*[#id='yui_patched_v3_11_0_1_1487254369606_202']
Can you please help me to retrieve correct xpath of Sign IN button which I can use with selenium IDE?
You can use below XPath to handle dynamic id:
//button[starts-with(#id, "yui_patched_v3_11_0_1_")]
But better solution is to use text content of element:
//button[normalize-space(text())="Sign In"]
I will have to disagree with the second statement of #Andersson, since it will work for .com but not for .nl.
As I see the site has a second language and my opinion is to avoid using selectors based on text on a multi-language environment.
Also as I see the id seems does not have a meaningful value, in this case try to identify a unique parent section and go from there.
One option for css/xpath would be:
css: form.sign-in-form button
xpath: //form[contains(#class, 'sign-in-form')]//button
In below screenshot you can see that I am trying to identify the password field with a valid xpath:
(.//*[#id='loginForm']/div/div/div/div/input)
No elements is identified but if I use the inspect element button and find any element randomly and then use the above xpath expression it is working.
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2
I got your point.
The thing is if you start the firepath and pasted
//*[#id='loginForm']/div/div1/div/div/input
above xpath, it tried to find that element if that is available in default or main page. If your element is inside any iframe then it will not able to find it.
If you inspect that element or any other near by, if they are inside same frame then your firepath is inside or focus on to that frame. If pasted your above xpath then it will able to find the element because you alreay in focus of that frame.
As per screen if you observe firepath left side, you are able to find some thing like iframe#iframe means your firepath is in focus to that frame and elements in that frame able to find by pasting.
At the time of starting the firepath it may like top window or widows and you pasted any element available in frame, then it is expected that it will not able to find it.
I hope you got it.
Thank You,
Murali
As murali said element was present inside IFRAME i changed the focus to iframe now it is working properly
After exhaustively searching for this over various forums, I still don't have an answer.
Here are complete details
I'm identifying the element through classname which points to multiple(4) buttons. I'm iterating through buttons and then search for text and when there is a match i click it.
This works fine with selenium webdriver and browsers such as firefox,chrome
Now I'm doing the same thing with appium.
Out of 4 buttons which are identified through classname, the script clicks 2 buttons successfully but for two buttons click happens(i can see the button being clicked) but new page which should be loaded is not loaded. The buttons for which click is not happening are in a footer class and other two are in div class.
Things i have already tried
Actions builder - click(), clickandhold()
Javascript executor
I'm currently trying with touch options, tap and by switching to native view but haven't found any success.
If any has encountered the same, a solution will be appreciated.
I want to avoid xPath because that might change in the page I'm working on, and I want to stress that the script is able to find the button, but is not able to click it properly.
You can filter your locator by using class name and index. Like this:
driver.findElementsByXPath("//*[#class='android.widget.ImageView' and #index='0']");
This xpath won't get change on other devices too.
Could you see: Unable to find an element in Browser of the Android emulator using Appium and C# ?
In case of testing web apps in browser the elements should be located as usual elements on the web page ( not as some classes like android.widget.EditText and android.widget.Button).
Upadting appium java client to 1.5.0 (from 1.3.0) solved the issue. Need to check why!
I spend hours already trying to find the way to find the Element using Selenium WebDriver. I assume I need to use driver.findElement(By.xpath("")), but I am not quite sure how.
I somehow need to find and click on "clickon" element. The problem is that part of that element is changing (see screenshot) I need to pick up from the file and putted into the xpath.
I would appreciate any help.
We have been rigorously searching for automated functional testing solutions recently, and we began with Selenium. The entire reason we decided to search for other solutions was that our application also has dynamic IDs with no other obvious XPath mechanism to identify them. Selenium is unable to identify these elements on the page without some additional knowledge, just as you would be unable to identify these elements on the page if you didn't already know what they are.
If you are controlling the DOM creation, consider adding a unique ID or class to this element.
We recently came across eggPlant from testPlant, and it is an interesting approach to functional testing. It's essentially image based. Other viable solutions are Ranorex or HP's QTP or SmartBear's TestComplete.
You can use xpath. If the div class is constant, you can use something like:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("list-row field-item")).click();
To view the xpath, you can install firefox plugin called 'xpath checker' found here and right click on the dom element and click 'View Xpath' option to get the xpath of the element and then you can use that xpath in your code.
Or you can even use regex in the xpath which is suitable for the similar problems. Xpath with regex is really powerful.
It seems that you want to click the div that has the on click attribute that contains certain text that doesn't change, ignoring the part that does. In that case, use an xpath like this:
//div[contains(#onclick, '/challenge/index/rfp_id/')]
This will select the first div with an onclick attribute with a value containing /challenge/index/rfp_id.