So let's say my html structure have couple of similar div elements.
body/div/...
body/div/...
body/div/...
body/DIV/div[#class='class']
I would like to access the last one. But the one that is upper-cased.
So "//body/div/" selector will find many, but not related elements.
And "//div/div[#class='class']" will select the child div, not the upper case parent.
Use parent to select the parent of a given element:
//div/div[#class='class']/parent
If you want to be more verbose, you can also select a parent by a given tag name:
//div/div[#class='class']/parent::div
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I want to access the 2nd element with same class name using css selectors.
1st element:
<a class="good">
2nd element:
<a class="good">
Css selector I am using :
a.good
but this accessing both of them.
How to access the 2nd one or anyone individually?
you can use pseudo selector, pseudo selector matches elements based on their position among a group of siblings.
check example link below
click here
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 have this very complicated xpath:
/html/body/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div[3]/div/table[1]/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td[1]/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr[1]/td/div/div/table/tbody[1]/tr[3]/td[2]/div/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td[1]/span/input
The span has this class="z-combobox-designation z-combobox".
I need to access the span element using its class and not through xpath. Is it possible with cssSelector? Can someone give me a hint how to do it?
Yes you can use css selector in this way to select your element based on compound classes
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".z-combobox-designation.z-combobox"));
or specify the tag name with classes like span.z-combobox-designation.z-combobox
If you have same kind of element more then one in your HTML then consider the unique parent of it and locate the same
E.g. there is parent table of your element which have unique id e.g. so you can consider that table tag fist and locate span based on that table e.g.
table#someid span.z-combobox-designation.z-combobox
I'd like to extract a list of divs (including their children, for further processing) which contain one or more <p class="c8"> child tags, using BeautifulSoup 4, but I haven't had any luck using the CSS selector syntax. Can I use find_all and a boolean function, or is there a better way?
There are different ways to approach the problem. One, is to locate all p elements having class="c8" and find the parent div element:
for p in soup.find_all("p", class_="c8"):
div = p.find_parent("div")
You can also write a function to find all div elements checking that there is a desired child:
def filter_div(elm):
return elm.name == "div" and elm.find("p", class_="c8")
for div in soup.find_all(filter_div):
# do smth with div
I am having three divs each with class myDiv(just for example). And each of div has unordered list with list items inside it.
So i can write down xpath as
By.xpath("//div[#class='myDiv']/ul/li")
I want the first myDiv only.
But this will give results of all three divs. How to get only first div contents. Please help to modify this xpath.
As discussed with the OP, following are potential xpaths to go with.
//li[contains(#id,'100_deal')]
(//div[#class='gbwshoveler-content'])[position()=1]
//div [#id="deals-onethirtyfive-hero10903707629515"]//ul/li
(//div[#class='gbwshoveler-content'])[1]
you can get first div using
By.xpath("//div[#class='myDiv'][1]/ul/li")