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']
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I was testing my website using RF. The problem is, every time the modal is opened, a different id(locator) will be set on the textbox that I want to input my text. How do you get value of this locator?
I was supposed to try Get Element Attribute but then it cannot support my problem since it still requires a specific locator.
In ROBOT Framework (RF), the locator can be accessed by several ways. Please refer and read this link: http://robotframework.org/Selenium2Library/Selenium2Library.html
The most common way to access the locator is by id such as :
Input Text id:username # Element with id 'username'.
Input Text id:password # Element with id 'password'. you can also use 'Input Password' keyword.
However, if the 'id' element is so dynamic which it keep changing, then the best alternative is to use either ABSOLUTE XPATH expression or CSS selectors. Install the XPATH add-on in your web browser. For firefox, just install ChroPath.
Then, get the ABSOLUTE Xpath element of that username & password text box. Let's assume we know the absolute xpath expression already, so in ROBOT, you can write like below.
${login_absolute_xpath}= Set Variable xpath=/html[1]//div[7]/form[1]/div[1]/input[1]
${password_absolute_xpath}= Set Variable xpath=/html[1]//div[7]/form[1]/div[2]/input[1]
Wait Until Page Contains Element xpath=${login_absolute_xpath}
Input Text xpath=${login_absolute_xpath}
Input Text xpath=${password_absolute_xpath}
...
This should works. Please let me know if this helps.
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 not able locate a webelement, this web application opens in Internet explorer only and I have used all the possible ways to click but no luck.
Xpath locators that I have tried :
"//form[#id='Form1']//a[contains(text(),'Age Range')]"
and
"//form[#id='Form1']//a[#id='rptTables1_ctl07_hlTablename1']"
also I have tried click on the element using action class and javascript as well.
Attached DOM in the URL, please have a look here
In the node a, id value is not static so you can't locate that element using the id value but you can use partial id value for example, looks like rptTables1_ is unique in id value and the remaining part is changing so applying contains() on this may works.
Try the below xpath if there is only match :
//a[contains(#id, 'rptTables1_')]
Try the below xpath by providing the matching index if there are multiple xpath matches :
(//a[contains(#id, 'rptTables1_')])[Matching index number]
for example if the matching index is 3 then you can write like this (//a[contains(#id, 'rptTables1_')])[3].
Or you can use the Advanced Performance Parameters Panel Topics text to identify that element.
//a[contains(text(), 'Advanced Performance Parameters Panel Topics')]
Again if there are multiple matches then try to use indexing method as mentioned above.
Or you can try the below modified your xpaths :
//form[#id='Form1']//a[contains(#id, 'rptTables1_')]
or
(//form[#id='Form1']//a[contains(#id, 'rptTables1_')])[Matching index number]
or
//form[#id='Form1']//a[contains(text(), 'Advanced Performance Parameters Panel Topics')]
I hope it helps...
I haven't tried any automation in IE at all but in firefox, sometimes I encounter those issues and my work around other than the .click() function is send_keys(Keys.RETURN). Also, i'm using time.sleep(x) before clicking or sending keys to make sure the element has been loaded.
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.
I am not able to find the element using "id" in selenium as the id is randomly changing in every session of execution so the same id i am not getting in next execution.
As there is no other unique property is there to identify the element.
code sample
You didn't specify a language so I'm going to give you Java. You can do this by using the CSS class or probably a better choice (because of likely uniqueness) is data-lynx-name.
By CSS class
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.http-lynx-json-org-text-input"));
By attribute
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div[data-lynx-name='username']"));
You really should read the question that I duped this one to:
Find element by attribute
Also read more about CSS selectors,
http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors/#selectors
You can use XPath.
String xpath = //div[#data-lynx-name='usernameLabel'][text='User ID']/following-sibling::div[1]
The above XPath will will find the div tag containing text 'User ID' and finds the next div which is is the required textbox.
It seems that you can even use the attribute 'data-lynx-name' attribute of the textbox div tag directly.
String xpath = //div[#data-lynx-name='username']
Selenium
driver.findElement(By.xpath(xpath));