I have followig HTML code and want X path for the text "Analytics & Research"
<div id="LLCompositePageContainer" class="column-wrapper">
<div id="compositePageTitleDiv">
<h1 class="page-header">Analytics & Research</h1>
</div>
I am getting following xpath using chrome, but that didnt work.
//*[#id="compositePageTitleDiv"]
this is my code
WebElement header = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#id='LLCompositePageContainer']/div[#id='compositePageTitleDiv']/h1[#class='page-header']"));
String header2 = header.getText();
System.out.println(header2);
and following error I am getting
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException:
Unable to find element with xpath ==
//div[#id='LLCompositePageContainer']/div[#id='compositePageTitleDiv']/h1[#class='page-header']
(WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 10.34 seconds For documentation on this
error, please visit:
http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html
Please try to use the below xpath:
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//div[#id='compositePageTitleDiv']/h1")).getText();
If the element is inside the iframe. Then use the below code:
// Switching to the frame
driver.switchTo().frame(<name>);
// Storing the value of the Analytics & Research
String text = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//div[#id='compositePageTitleDiv']/h1")).getText();
// Switching back to original window
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
Hope this helps.
This is how it can be used :
WebElement element= driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='compositePageTitleDiv']"));
Or in case it is nested, can be accessed like this as well
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//html/body/div[3]/div[3]/"));
this is just a rough syntax.
No need to use Xpath here if you could simply locate the element using By.id(). Asuming are using Java, you should try as below :-
WebElement el = drive.findElement(By.id("compositePageTitleDiv"));
String text = el.getText();
Edited :- If element not found, may it is timing issues you need to implement WebDriverWait to wait for element until visible on the page as below :-
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, implicitWait);
WebElement el = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("compositePageTitleDiv")));
String text = el.getText();
Note :- if your element is inside any frame, you need to switch that frame before finding element as :- driver.switchTo().frame("your frame name or id");
Hope it helps..:)
You can also use
//div[#id='LLCompositePageContainer']/div[#id='compositePageTitleDiv']/
h1[contains(text(),'Analytics')]
This is the best way to reach to the specific web element, using contains minimize the chances of error.
The correct xpath is
//div[#id='LLCompositePageContainer']
/div[#id='compositePageTitleDiv']
/h1[#class='page-header']
But you could have find your answer easily with some researchs on google...
Related
Service Now has changed to using shadow root like this
<span id='s1'>
#shadow-root
<button>Cancel</button>
<button>Submit</button>
</span>
I can easily get the first span:
WebElement sele = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[#id='s1']"));
And then get the shadow root:
SearchContext sc = sele.getShadowRoot();
But it will not let you do a
sc.findElements(By.xpath(".//button'"));
or more preferably
WebElement cancelButton = sc.findElement(By.xpath(".//button[.='Cancel']"));
You have to find with CS selector
sc.findElements(By.cssSelector(" button"));
and go through each button to get the text. To make it worse, when I try
List<WebElement> buttons = sc.findElements(By.cssSelector(" button"));
because it says there is an error with "=" and it expects "<=". No idea why. Have to do a
for (WebElement wele : sc.findElements(By.cssSelector(" button")) {
String txt = wele.getText();
if (txt.equals("Cancel")) ... // whatever you want
}
So my question is is there someway to convert "sc" to a WebElement? Even maybe someway to get itself? The equivalent of
sc.findElement(By.xpath("."));
or someway to look for xpath with SearchContext?
Looks like this discussion is exactly what you looking for.
There are several answers given there to get the Shadow Root as a WebElement object.
I am using TestNG and selenium for testing web app.
<div class="infoMessage">The request has been successfully submitted.</div>
In the my TestNG class file, like any other HTML elments for div element also
I have
#FindBy(xpath="//*[#id='wrapper']/table/tbody/tr[1]/td/div")
WebElement resultdiv;
Now that I got the webelement in resultdiv, how can i read the content "The request has been successfully submitted" ?
Just at a quick glance, it seem like you can try use className instead xpath:
#FindBy(className="infoMessage")
WebElement resultdiv;
Use .getText(); to achieve:
String text = resultdiv.getText();
Hi #bnath002 You can use Contains text Xpath, below is the code. this code always work for text.
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[contains(text(),'The request has been successfully submitted.')]"));
String innerText= element.getText();
System.out.println("Your inner text is: "+innerText);
I'm a little unfamiliar with #FindBy, but i'm assuming you could use getText() as normal. But if everything went as planned and the xpath located your element successfully, you should be able to retrieve the text with the following :)
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='wrapper']/table/tbody/tr[1]/td/div"));
String innerText= element.getText();
System.out.println("Your inner text is: "+innerText);
Using firefox and marking a link in my web-app I get among other things, this code which I think I can use to caprture an object:
cb_or_somename_someothername cb_area_0219
This string is "classname" in Firebug.
Going to the script I type in:
WebElement rolle = driver.findElement(By.className("cb_or_somename_someothername cb_area_0219"));
But the script does not find the element when executing.
Other onfo in the Firebug panel is:
class="cb_or_somename_someothername cb_area_0219"
onclick="jsf.util.chain(this,event,'$(this).attr(\'disabled\', \'disabled\');return true;','mojarra.jsfcljs(document.getElementById(\'fwMainContentForm\'),{\'fwMainContentForm:j_idt156:2:selectRole \':\'fwMainContentForm:j_idt156:2:selectRole\'},\'\')');return false"
href="#"
id="fwMainContentForm:j_idt156:2:selectRole"
Is my script referring the element in a wrong way?
You cannot use search by compound class name (name with spaces). Try to use search by CSS selector instead:
WebElement rolle = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".cb_or_somename_someothername.cb_area_0219"));
or by XPath:
WebElement rolle = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#class='cb_or_somename_someothername cb_area_0219']"));
Also you still can use search by one of two class names:
WebElement rolle = driver.findElement(By.className("cb_or_somename_someothername"));
or
WebElement rolle = driver.findElement(By.className("cb_area_0219")); // Note that this class name could be generated dynamically, so each time it could has different decimal part
Update
If you get Element is not clickable... exception it seem that your element is covered by another element at the moment you try to click on it. So try to wait until this "cover" is no more visible:
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//p[#class='environtment-banner']"));
WebElement rolle = driver.findElement(By.className("cb_area_0219"));
rolle.click();
I have span tag which looks like a button on html tag
<span class="middle">Next</span>
I tried using
xpath=driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[#id='modal-actions-panel']/div[2]/a/span/span/span")); // by considering fixed id as reference
Using absolute
xpath=driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[4]/div[2]/a/span/span/span")); // took this from firebug
and Using
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span[class='middle']"));
No success!! It is throwing below exception :
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//span[contains(., \"Next\")]"}
Command duration or timeout: 30.12 seconds
For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html
For all the ways I tried it is showing the same exception with change in selector details. Can someone please help me out in finding solution so that I can find Next button that is in span tag and click it.
Next button is in iFrame: Below is the part of html covering required span tag.
Next
I also tried with :
driver.switchTo().frame("iframe-applicationname_ModalDialog_0");
WebElement el = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span.middle"));
But throwing below error :
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with
Kindly let me know if needed something that I'm missing..
I think this element is inside a frame or iframe, if it is then you need to switch that frame or iframe before finding element as below :-
driver.switchTo().frame("iframe-applicationname_ModalDialog_0");
WebElement el = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span.middle"));
el.click();
//Now after all your stuff done inside frame need to switch to default content
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
Edited1 :- If you are getting exception as element is not currently visible need to implement WebDriverWait to wait until element visible as below :-
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
//Find frame or iframe and switch
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt("iframe-applicationname_ModalDialog_0"));
//Now find the element
WebElement el = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath(".//span[#class = 'middle' and contains(text(), 'Next')]")));
el.click();
//Once all your stuff done with this frame need to switch back to default
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
Edited2 :- If unfortunately it's not getting visible try to click on it using JavascriptExecutor as below :-
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
//Find frame or iframe and switch
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt("iframe-applicationname_ModalDialog_0"));
//Now find the element
WebElement el = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.xpath(".//span[#class = 'middle' and contains(text(), 'Next')]")));
//Now click using JavascriptExecutor
((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click()" el);
//Once all your stuff done with this frame need to switch back to default
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
Try this....
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[contains(#class,'middle') and contains(text(), 'Next')]"))
I tried it and it worked for me:
WebElement actionBtn=driver2.findElement(
By.xpath("//span[contains(#class,'v-menubar-menuitem-caption')
and contains(text(), 'Actions')]")
);
actionBtn.click();
Try this
new WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//span[contains(#class,'middle') and contains(text(), 'Next')]"))).click();
I am trying to use Selenium's Xpath ability to be able to find an set of elements. I have used FirePath on FireFox to create and test the Xpath that I have come up with and that is working just fine but when I use the Xpath in my c# test with Selenium nothing is returned.
var MiElements = this._driver.FindElements(By.XPath("//div[#class='context-menu-item' and descendant::div[text()='Action Selected Jobs']]"));
and the Html looks like this:-
Can Anyone please point me right as everything that I have read the web says to me that this Xpath is correct.
Thanking you all in-advance.
Please post the actual HTML, so we can simply "drop it in" into a HTML file and try it ourselves but I noticed that there is a trailing space at the end of the class name:
<div title="Actions Selected Jobs." class="context-menu-item " .....
So force XPath to strip the trailing spaces first:
var MiElements = this._driver.FindElements(By.XPath("//div[normalize-space(#class)='context-menu-item' and descendant::div[text()='Action Selected Jobs']]"));
Perhaps you don't take into consideration the time that the elements need to load and you look for them when they aren't yet "searchable". UPDATE I skipped examples regarding this issue. See Slanec's comment.
Anyway, Selenium recommends to avoid searching by xpath whenever it is possible, because of being slower and more "fragile".
You could find your element like this:
//see the method code below
WebElement div = findDivByTitle("Action Selected Jobs");
//example of searching for one (first found) element
if (div != null) {
WebElement myElement = div.findElement(By.className("context-menu-item"));
}
......
//example of searching for all the elements
if (div != null) {
WebElement myElement = div.findElements(By.className("context-menu-item-inner"));
}
//try to wrap the code above in convenient method/s with expressive names
//and separate it from test code
......
WebElement findDivByTitle(final String divTitle) {
List<WebElement> foundDivs = this._driver.findElements(By.tagName("div"));
for (WebElement div : foundDivs) {
if (element.getAttribute("title").equals(divTitle)) {
return element;
}
}
return null;
}
This is approximate code (based on your explanation), you should adapt it better to your purposes. Again, remember to take the load time into account and to separate your utility code from the test code.
Hope it helps.