I have two input fields username and password. I am unable to locate and enter the inputs using selenium. Login button click also fails.
Please find the HTML
<div id="loginTable">
<form accept-charset="UTF-8" name="loginForm" method="POST" action="/cgi-bin/login">
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>User name:</td><td colspan="2"><input name="LOGIN"></td></tr><tr>
<td>Password:</td><td colspan="2"><input name="PWD" type="password"></td></tr><tr>
<td colspan="2"><button type="submit">Login</button></td></tr></tbody></table></form></div>
i have used below code lines,
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//[#id=\"loginTable\"]/form/table/tr[1]/td[2]/input")).sendKeys("test");
driver.findElement(By.name("LOGIN")).sendKeys("test");
WebElement userEntry=wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.name("LOGIN")));
userEntry.sendKeys("Test");
None of them are working.
Login button also not working.
Please help me.
The issue is your locator. You need something to identify the type of element you're looking for at the start (e.g. "//div[#id...." or "//*[#id...." if you want it as a wildcard) However you can simplify your locator to:
//input[#name='LOGIN']
Compound locators like the one you've attempted to use can be very brittle, as there are more elements from your code that could potentially change.
Related
I have a html like this
<td class="random">
<div id="randomID">Product:</div>
</td>
<td class="random">
<div id="randomID">
<input type="text" class="random">
</div>
</td>
my xpath //div[contains(text(),"Product:")] gives me the first element for which I want to send input. How do I get the input xpath so I can do input.sendkeys() on it.
You use either of the xpath to get the input tag.
Use following and index of input tag
//div[contains(text(),"Product:")]/following::input[1]
Or find the td tag and then use following-sibling
//td[.//div[contains(text(),"Product:")]]/following-sibling::td[1]//input
You can use below xpath as well.
//div[text()="Product:"]/following::input[1]
Or
//td[.//div[text()="Product:"]]/following-sibling::td[1]//input
Use following-sibling
Try with following xpath:
//td[contains(.,"Product:")]//following-sibling::td//input
For the provided code, the input is very simple to identify:
//input[#class='random']
Since I can't see any other duplicate code to force you to be more precise, I don't see the problem in using this one.
If you have multiple , and each or some of them have an input inside, in this case:
//div[text()="Product:"]/following::input[1]
Where Product is the visible text of the div that you want to use as a parent, and then you go straight in the first input taken by its index.
Please see the image below which shows code of the web page in Developer Tools window and advise me the correct selector for 'Depreciation Models'. Text highlighted in red is constant, however the surrounding text is dynamic. So I tried using contains selector to locate but unsuccessful. I want to avoid XPATH as number of before and after div elements may keep changing.
I am using Selenium IDE hence the C#/Java code for RC/Webdriver won't help much.
Selenium IDE generated target path is this:
css=#dhxId_rgWATog7lC3E_27572|6059|6152 > td.sub_item_text > div.sub_item_text
I tried
css=contains('27572') > td.sub_item_text > div.sub_item_text
but it didn't work.
Kindly suggest. I am stuck. Thanks.
As you tried the Locator Strategy as :
css=contains('27572') > td.sub_item_text > div.sub_item_text
Reasons for not working
From the snapshot of the HTML you have provided, 27572 is not the innerText but partial string of the id attribute.
As per selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSelectorException with “span:contains('string')”:
The :contains pseudo-class isn't in the CSS Spec and is not supported by either Firefox or Chrome (even outside WebDriver).
Solution
You can use the following xpath as per the existing DOM Tree:
xpath=//tr[#class='sub_item'][contains(#id,'27572')]//td[#class='sub_item_text']/div[#class='sub_item_text'][contains(.,'Depreciations Models')]
I guess this would be the right approach:
<style>
[id*="27572"] > td.sub_item_text > div.sub_item_text{
color:red;
}
<table>
<tbody>
<tr id="dhxId_rgWATog7lC3E_27572|6059|6152" class="sub_item">
<td class="sub_item_icon">
<i class="fa fa-user epc-down-circled-2"></i>
</td>
<td class="sub_item_text">
<div class="sub_item_text"> Depriciations Models</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
It will set all elements that have an id attribute value containing "27572" and inside of it.
I've tried several xpath's for choosing the dropdown list. But nothing is worked.
Some of the xpath's I used are as follows:
By.xpath("//table/tbody/tr[2]/td[2]/span").click;
Or
By.xpath("/td[2]/span[contains(text(),'NATIONAL IDENTITY DOCUMENT')]").click;
Please find the below html tags, I need to select the value either 'ASYLUM SEEKER PERMIT DOCUMENT' or 'NATIONAL IDENTITY DOCUMENT'.
<tbody>
<tr id="jP2Qrg" class="z-comboitem">
<td class="z-comboitem-img"/>
<td class="z-comboitem-text">
<span class="z-comboitem-spacer"/>
ASYLUM SEEKER PERMIT DOCUMENT
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="jP2Qsg" class="z-comboitem z-comboitem-over">
<td class="z-comboitem-img"/>
<td class="z-comboitem-text">
<span class="z-comboitem-spacer"/>
NATIONAL IDENTITY DOCUMENT
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
When I try to take xpath using firepath, it is dynamic. Every time the xpath and the id is keep changing. So please suggest the xpath which works.
The text is not inside the span text and it is in second td tag. you can try with small change in your code as given below.
By.xpath("//table/tbody/tr[2]/td[2]").click;
or
By.xpath("//td[contains(text(),'NATIONAL IDENTITY DOCUMENT')]").click;
Can you check this..,
By.xpath("//*[contains(text(),'NATIONAL IDENTITY DOCUMENT')]").click;
By.xpath("//*[contains(text(),'ASYLUM SEEKER PERMIT DOCUMENT')]").click;
Try to use below XPath to match required option:
By.xpath("//td[normalize-space()='ASYLUM SEEKER PERMIT DOCUMENT']").click;
or
By.xpath("//td[.='ASYLUM SEEKER PERMIT DOCUMENT']").click;
As #Murthi said, text node is not a child of span, but td. Note that there are some specifics in locating text nodes
Here is the Answer to your Question:
To click on ASYLUM SEEKER PERMIT DOCUMENT you can use the following xpath:
By.xpath("//td[contains(.,'ASYLUM SEEKER PERMIT DOCUMENT') and not (#class='z-comboitem-spacer')]").click;
Let me know if this Answers your Question.
How about this xpaths,
Updated code
(//td[2])[1]//*[starts-with(#class,"z-com")]; // Selects ASYLUM..
(//td[2])[2]//*[starts-with(#class,"z-com")]; // Selects NATIONAL..
This should work if it doesn't have same class name in the same position.
Old xpath's
driver.findelement(By.xpath("(//td[2])[1]")); // selects ASYLUM SEEKER PERMIT DOCUMENT
driver.findelement(By.xpath("(//td[2])[2]")); // selects NATIONAL IDENTITY DOCUMENT
Find out the solution for selecting the dropdown options.
By using List method, I took the list of options available in that field and selected by using clicking the index value of list.
List<WebElement> Idtype = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//tr[2]/td[2][#class = 'z-comboitem-text']"));
Idtype.get(0).click();
I am finding it hard to create a relative xpath for a check box . I have attached the code snippet below. Firebug gives me an absolute xpath as:
html/body/div[6]/div[2]/form/table[1]/tbody/tr[3]/td[1]/input[1].
But the form changes if there is separate entry and then absolute xpath changes to:
html/body/div[6]/div[2]/form/table[1]/tbody/tr[4]/td[1]/input[1]
(or tr[5] or any number). I tried to use the relative xpath but the firebug shows the xpath in red colour (so it is invalid)-
.//*[#id='responderSelection'155939'1']
Please help.
<form id="pollGroupForm" method="post" action="/consoleapp/newSurvey.jspx">
<div class="filter"/>
<table class="dataTable">
<tbody>
<tr>
<tr class="alternateRow">
<tr>
<td>
<input id="responderSelection'155939'1" type="checkbox" value="true" name="responderSelection['155939']"/>
<input type="hidden" value="on" name="_responderSelection['155939']"/>
</td>
<td>twoway_2</td>
<td> 26161 </td>
<td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table>
</form>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
Would you try a partial search using cssSelector? I assume the numbers with the id is dynamic so the following cssSelector let's you find the checkbox with the partial match of the id(^ means starts with)
[id^='responderSelection']
If you really want xpath then contains() is the equivalence to the css above
//input[contains(#id,'responderSelection')]
There are several different ways to do this, depending on the exact conditions.
If there is only on checkbox in that table, then you can focus on that: //table//input[#type='checkbox'].
Possibly safer selector would be to look for a checkbox in your form, as that has a fixed id attribute: //form[#id='pollGroupForm']//input[#type='checkbox']. If you can, always start from fixed ids.
If you want to get the Xpath of an element which ID is changing dynamically, there is a little trick: simply inspect the element with Firebug, delete its ID by double clicking on it (delete the whole id parameter, or change the value to "")and you will get the correct Xpath.
For example if you have the following structure:
<div id="fix-id">
<div id="dynamic-id-1214151"></div>
</div>
You will get //*[#id="fix-id"]/div[1] instead of //*[#id="dynamic-id-1214151"].
Automate an application through selenium where id changes dynamically.how can i handle this.Pls help me..
HTML code is:-
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="1000px">
<tbody><tr id="ctl00_ctl00_MainContent_CarQuoteMainContent_rpQuotes_trSelectedQuote_0">
<td align="center" valign="middle" width="12%">
<input id="ctl00_ctl00_MainContent_CarQuoteMainContent_rpQuotes_chkCompare_0" name="ctl00$ctl00$MainContent$CarQuoteMainContent$rpQuotes$ctl00$chkCompare" type="checkbox">
</td>
In both the cases ( and ), I assume that the first part of the ID is unique. So you can use something like this.
//tr[contains(#id,'ctl00_')] and for input field //input[contains(#id,'ctl00_')].
Those don't look like dynamic IDs, but rather non-content-specific row IDs for elements in a list.
If that's the case, you can't immediately ascertain 'This row element is displaying data for MyCarQuotes.com' from this information alone as there's nothing in the HTML shown to base that query on.
If there's something in the rows you can use to 'identify' the content (eg a company name) - and you have a specific 'thing' you want to interact with - you could encapsulate the lookup and do something like
CheckboxForQuoteFromCompany("MyCarQuotes.com").Click();
If you're able to post more of the HTML (at least a full row), and more importantly the intention of your test, we may be able to be of more help.