My Problem:
The Page I try to test with NightwatchJS Contains Some Input Fields that have the Same beginning, but a random number is added. I want to Fill the Textfield on the page. Only one with this name is present on the same time.
<input id="groupNamec7aed06a-67a1-4780-9cc3-5b985666adb9" class="d-styled-input" data-value-update="keyup" data-bind="value: name" title="">
Is the definition of the Field. groupName is every Time the same, but the number changes.
Is there a possibility to use CSS Selector in nightwatch instead of XPATH?
You can try this way :
input[id^="groupName"]
From MDN > Attribute selectors :
[attr^=value] : Represents an element with an attribute name of attr and whose first value is prefixed by "value".
Unfortunately CSS Selector does not provide such a way. You could use a different CSS Selector to match inputs with an id and get those as a list. Afterwards using getAttribute('id') you could do it manually, but this seems like unnecessary effort to me and I'd recommend just using Xpath.
Ofcourse you could try and get a different unique CSS Selector. If it's in a form you could locate the form and use :nth-child but if I remember correctly this has limited/no support in IE.
Edit Apparently IE9 and later does support :nth-child
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The page contains a multi-select dropdown (similar to the one below)
The html code looks like the below:
<div class="button-and-dropdown-div>
<button class="Multi-Select-Button">multi-select button</button>
<div class="dropdown-containing-options>
<label class="dropdown-item">
<input class="checkbox">
"
Name
"
</label>
<label class="dropdown-item">
<input class="checkbox">
"
Address
"
</label>
</div>
After testing in firefox developer tools, I was finally able to figure out the xPath needed in order to get the text for a certain label ...
The below XPath statement will return the the text "Phone"
$x("(//label[#class='dropdown-item'])[4]/text()[2]")
The label contains multiple text items (although it looks like there is just one text object when looking at the UI) in the label element. There are actually two text elements within each label element. The first is always empty, the second contains the actual text (as shown in the below image when observing the element through the Firefox developer tool's console window):
Question:
How do I modify the XPath shown above in order to use in Selenium's FindElement?
Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("?"));
I know how to use the contains tool, but apparently not with more complex XPath statements. I was pretty sure one of the below would work but they did not (develop tool complain of a syntax error):
$x("(//label[#class='dropdown-item' and text()[2][contains(., 'Name')]]")
$x("(//label[#class='dropdown-item' and contains(text()[2], 'Name')]")
I am using the 'contains' in order to avoid white-space conflicts.
Additional for learning purposes (good for XPath debugging):
just in case anyone comes across this who is new to XPath, I wanted to show what the data structure of these label objects looked like. You can explore the data structure of objects within your webpage by using the Firefox Console window within the developer tools (F12). As you can see, the label element contains three sub-items; text which is empty, then the inpput checkbox, then some more text which has the actual text in it (not ideal). In the picture below, you can see the part of the webpage that corresponds to the label data structure.
If you are looking to find the element that contains "Name" given the HTML above, you can use
//label[#class='dropdown-item'][contains(.,'Name')]
So finally got it to work. The Firefox developer environment was correct when it stated there was a syntax problem with the XPath strings.
The following XPath string finally returned the desired result:
$x("//label[#class='dropdown-item' and contains(text()[2], 'Name')]")
I want to click on the search auto complete BUTTON in a webmail application.
<button class="_n_r ms-bg-color-themeLight-hover o365button _n_s ms-bg-color-themeLighter ms-font-color-neutralPrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary" type="button" autoid="_n_4" aria-label="Activate Search Textbox">
<span class="_n_u owaimg ms-Icon--search ms-icon-font-size-20 ms-fcl-ts-b"/>
<span class="_n_t ms-font-weight-semilight ms-font-color-neutralPrimary">Search Mail and People</span>
When clicking the BUTTON, we get this INPUT
<input class="_is_x ms-font-weight-semibold ms-font-color-neutralPrimary ms-bg-color-themeLight ms-bg-color-themeLight-hover allowTextSelection textbox ms-font-s ms-fwt-sl ms-fcl-np ms-bcl-nta ms-bcl-nsa-h hideClearButton" autoid="_is_3" role="combobox" aria-autocomplete="list" aria-label="Search mail and people, type your search term then press enter to search."/>
I'm getting the following error while trying to use the class name from the input.
"The given selector _n_r ms-bg-color-themeLight-hover o365button _n_sms-bg-color-themeLighter ms-border-color-themeLighter is either invalid or does not result in a WebElement. The following error occurred: InvalidSelectorError: Compound class names not permitted"
We tried to use selenium IDE to fetch the value, but we are getting only the xpath. Is there any way to locate autocomplete search field with out using the xpath?
That's a LOT of classes on that INPUT. :) I would use a different attribute. I would start with one of these and see which one works for you. You didn't specify the language you are using so here's some code in Java.
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[autoid='_is_3']"));
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[aria-label='Search mail and people, type your search term then press enter to search.']"));
Quick note since you were asking about classes. You can go the classes route and use CSS Selectors to find them. A simple example.
<button class="one two">
You can find the BUTTON above using
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("button.one.two"));
A period (.) indicates a CSS class so you would need a period before each class name. You don't necessarily need to include all the classes, only enough to make the element unique so you can locate it.
CSS Selectors reference
CSS Selectors tips
I am trying to automate test case using Protractor and Jasmine. The problem is I have an "article" web element tag that gets created at runtime and this web-element has a as sub element. This div element has a "id" tag associated with it. The structure of the code is below.
<article class="a b c d" data-ng-repeat="xyz repeat">
<div id="THIS IS WHAT I WANT" class="class name">
</article>
Now I am able to get get hold of the article web-element. but I am not able to get the ID attribute in the div. The ID values is generated dynamically. Kindly suggest how I can get the ID value.
Thank you
You can use a CSS Selector like this:
article > div
This will get you a div inside of an article. Now you can use this to play around and specify the selector further with classes or other stuff.
If you managed to get the div element you can then pull out the idea using (not sure if the syntax is correct but you should get the idea):
element.getAttribute('id')
1) element(by.xpath(//div[#class='class name'])).getAttribute('id')
2) element(by.xpath(//article [#class='abcd']//div[#id='THIS IS WHAT I WANT'])).getAttribute('id')
You can use chains like this:
element(by.classname('')).element(by.className('classname'));
or
element(by.css('css of parent')).element(by.css('child css'));
or you can use element(by.repeater('repeat in reapeats')).element(by.css(''));
I have this code for xpath and html:
<a class="WatchButton inicon" rel="nofollow" data-productid="111124">
xpath=/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[8]/a
How can I get the data-productid value?
Just add #data-productid to the xpath expression:
/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[8]/a/#data-productid
Note that the xpath expression you have is very fragile since it depends on a bunch of elements and their relevant positions. Try to rely on the element's attributes or one of it's containers - look for id and class attributes. For example:
//a[contains(#class, "WatchButton")]/#data-productid
This gets the first link anywhere on a page that contains WatchButton class and retrieves it's data-productid attribute value.
* Sharing the link to the web page or showing the complete HTML could help to provide you with a more reliable xpath expression.
while writing some acceptance tests for my webapp (playframework based),I got confused by the usage of some selenium commands.
In my html page,I have a submit button like this
<input type="submit" id="removecartitem" value="remove"/>
to locate this,I used
assertElementPresent(id='removecartitem')
however,this fails,
assertElementPresent id='removecartitem' false
The selenium documentation says
id=id: Select the element with the specified #id attribute.
but,if i simply put
assertElementPresent('removecartitem')
Then,the test is executed correctly.This is the source for confusion, since the default way is to select the element whose name attribute is 'removecartitem' ,and I haven't mentioned any name attribute in my html
Any idea why this happens?
It looks like you need to remove the single quotes according to the documentation you provided...e.g:
assertElementPresent(id=removecartitem)