I tried with following but no luck.
//button[contains(text(),'Upload')]
The XPath //button[contains(text(),'Upload')] will match a button whose first child text node contains "Upload".
It's not clear from your screenshot, but there may be an all-whitespace text node before the <span>, and if so, it would not contain "Upload".
Instead, try:
//button[contains(., 'Upload')]
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im trying to find an element with dinamic values , for example <span class="ms-Button-label label-175" id="id__177">Save</span> in inspect element, the id and class values tend to change for every refresh, how can i in this case find the element in selenium? i tried troguht xpath but seems doesnt work because can not find the path, i was thinking to find "Save" world torught always find by xpath but actually i dont know if im doing well : driver.find_element_by_xpath(//span(#.... but then? how can insert element if it changes everytime? thanks!
Something like this may work:
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//span[text()="Save"]')
But this will fail, if there is more than one button with text "Save" on the page.
In that case you may try to find some specific outer element (div, form, etc.) which does not change and contains the button. Then find the button inside of it.
With few requests with driver:
specific_div = driver.find_element_by_id("my_specific_div")
button = specific_div.find_element_by_tag_name("span") # e.g. there is only one span in that div
Or with more specific xpath:
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[#class="some-specific-class"]/span[text()="Save"]')
If needed, search for more nested elements before the button, so you can get more narrow search field.
More examples in the docs.
I have this code in html. and I want to go to a sibling node.
I search by title (since this is a unique value in the UI), but I want to move to the same level but with different class name that will contains ant-select-tree-switcher_close.
This is the xpath to what is marked, and I just want to move in the same level for the first span, but without span1, or any hard coded solution. I want to search by class name that contains the words ant-select-tree-switcher_close as some text in the class name.
the xpath is:
//*[#title='Arts/Ent'] this is marked in yellow
I want to go to the purple section regards
You can use preceding-sibling
//*[#title='Arts/Ent']/preceding-sibling::*[contains(#class, 'ant-select-tree-switcher_close')]
If you want to use the 'Arts/Ent' WebElement to locate the sibling you can use
./preceding-sibling::*[contains(#class, 'a')]
I want to use XPath to locate a link behind a text.
I want to use XPath to locate a link behind a text. For example, locate "one4" by "what10". You can only use the text message "what10", but you can't use it in any other way, because the information on this page will change. I want to get is the "one4" link node.
<body>
<p>
so
<br>what1 one
<br>what2two
<br>what11one4
<br>what3three
<br>what4one1
<br>what5two2
<br>what6three3
<br>what7one3
<br>what8two3
<br>what9three3
<br>what10one4
<br>just return
<br></p>
</body>
For some special reasons, what I want to pass is that the text of what10 is positioned to one4.
Please help me.
You can use below line
WebElement loginLink = driver.findElement(By.linkText("one4"));
Selenium doesn't supports xpath-2.0 but uses xpath-1.0
The element which you are trying to refer i.e. which contains the text what10 is a Text Node and Selenium can't use it as a reference. So finding the node with text as one4 with reference to the text what10 won't be possible. As an alternative if the desired node is always the last but one node you can use the following solution:
xpath:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//body/p//a[position()=last()-1]"));
Update
As per #MosheSlavin counter question here is the snapshot to demonstrate that the XPath works perfecto:
<label>Please <strong>help</strong> me out</label>
for this i tried XPath
.//label[text()="Please help me out"]/following-sibling::input
and also tried
.//label[contains(text(), "Please help me out"]/following-sibling::input
I tried searching but didn't get the exact one.
you can use the attribute of the input self to locator it.
xpath:
//input[#placeholder='Please enter important names']
css selector:
input[placeholder='Please enter important names']
Or with lable assist in xpath:
//div[label[contains(text(), 'enter name and if multiple separe with')]]/input
There are many span tags as mentioned in the image below and each has its own a-tag with unique id as "chooseitem". I need to choose particular a tag using names in the span tags.
Need to click the a-tag button using the text Mayo Chicken from the above HTML snippet in the image.
I have tried the below Selenium script
WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(text(),'Mayo Chicken (Single)')]"));
WebElement add = select.findElement(By.id("chooseitem"));
It doesn't work for me.
driver.findElement(By.id("chooseitem"));
The above code chooses the first item in the page by default as its id is also 'chooseitem', but need to define what to be chosen.
Can anybody help me out?
We need to get the common parent(ancestor) element of the chicked and the clickable 'a' tag, then we can navigate to the tag 'a'. Below xpath should ideally work.
"//span[contains(text(),'Mayo chicken')]/ancestor::div[4]//a"
Note: Here i have used div[4] because fourth parent is the common ancestor for 'Mayo chicken' and tag 'a'.
For more details about different xpath axis refer this->https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_axes.asp
Hope this helps you. thanks.
You can do that by using the xpath position, press F12 for developer tools click on "Select element button", click the element that interests you on the page, as in your picture you will see one or more lines highlighted, right click the line -> Copy -> Copy xpath. You will have something like the line below:
//*[#id="comment-76500216"]/td[2]/div/span[1]
The xpath position will be:
//td[2]/div/span[1]
You can use that when you have multiple elements that share the name or id or so on.
And you will have:
WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//td[2]/div/span[1]"));
PS: I used google chrome