In below screenshot you can see that I am trying to identify the password field with a valid xpath:
(.//*[#id='loginForm']/div/div/div/div/input)
No elements is identified but if I use the inspect element button and find any element randomly and then use the above xpath expression it is working.
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I got your point.
The thing is if you start the firepath and pasted
//*[#id='loginForm']/div/div1/div/div/input
above xpath, it tried to find that element if that is available in default or main page. If your element is inside any iframe then it will not able to find it.
If you inspect that element or any other near by, if they are inside same frame then your firepath is inside or focus on to that frame. If pasted your above xpath then it will able to find the element because you alreay in focus of that frame.
As per screen if you observe firepath left side, you are able to find some thing like iframe#iframe means your firepath is in focus to that frame and elements in that frame able to find by pasting.
At the time of starting the firepath it may like top window or widows and you pasted any element available in frame, then it is expected that it will not able to find it.
I hope you got it.
Thank You,
Murali
As murali said element was present inside IFRAME i changed the focus to iframe now it is working properly
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I am trying to automate Salesforce application Using Selenium and getting NoSuchelementException though XPATH is correct and valid for particular object. When i have searched the issue, it might be reason for Shadow DOM.
For EX:
So XAPTH i have written like,
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#name='Name']")).sendKeys("Jams");
or
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#id='input-299']")).sendKeys("Jams");
This XPATH is highlighting in Console as well. But while automating it throws nosuchelement error.
So while checking for ShadowDOM option, am getting option like this for Name Object.
#shadow-root(user-agent)
Shadowroot DIV
-- nothing mentioned in div. it just open and closed tags.
How to automate this?
You can check if there are any iframes in your Dom. Simply do //iframe in your page developer mode(F12)> elements tab > search (Ctrf+F) area. If there are any, you will get the number of iframes.
Now if your textbox is in any of iframe use below code to go inside particular iframe first
driver.switch_to.frame("<name or Id of frame>")
then come out to frame use below:
driver.switch_to.parent_frame()
Also, if the issue is not related to frames check below for shadow-root related issue:
you can check below for shadow-root element ( Question is for Java, but you can co-relate):
How to interact with the elements within #shadow-root (open) while Clearing Browsing Data of Chrome Browser using cssSelector
The website contents are mostly created now using javascript. You may have to wait for certain elements to load before doing anything to it.
https://seleniumbyexamples.github.io/wait
I am trying to locate a tweet like button using xPath.
If I go to https://twitter.com/BillGates and use Chrome developer tools, I can see:
That the like button for the first tweet is located at:
/html/body/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/main/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/section/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/div/article/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[3]/div[3]/div/div/div[1]/svg/g/path
That the first tweet like button has:
< path d="M12 [lots of numbers]">
I tried to use both Python + Selenium and XPath Helper Chrome extension but with both approaches I cannot find the button.
I have tried without success using the full xPath and also the query below:
.find_element_by_xpath("//path[starts-with(#d, 'M')]").click()
Actually, I cannot get anything past the last div. //svg, //g and //path all get zero results. //div on the other hand, gets me 900+ results...
Appreciate if anyone can help to point me in the right direction.
Thanks!
I highly recommend not using Twitter to practice automation.
Anyways, i've seen that the likes buttons has data-testid attribute which it's value is unique to that element you are looking for, so we can easily get all the likes buttons elements like this:
//div[#data-testid="like"]
Or with css selector like this:
div[data-testid="like"]
Assuming you are writing in Python, Then we can use find_elements method to get all the elements in a list.
like_buttons = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[#data-testid="like"]")
And easily click any tweet's like button you'd by index,
like_buttons[0].click() # 0 Is the first tweet, 1 is the 2nd etc...
Note that you might need to perform a hover on this element and then click it,
So if the driver find the element, but it's not clickable, it must be it.
I got stuck not just for this one case. Many cases came out with nosuchelement exception, I cannot find the reason why. I use chrome console to locate the element and it shows correct result. Is that possible something wrong with the page itself, not my script?
Context click on the element you are trying to click, and see if the element is inside any frame. Try to navigate through the tags and see if this element is under any iframe.
switch to the iframe using,
driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.xpath("iframexpath")));
I wrote this
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#type='textarea']")).sendKeys("foo");
and I got this
BrowserController.remoteControl(): Unable to locate element: //input[#type='textarea']
When you are not able to find the element it could be following reasons
Identifier you provided is wrong
element is inside some frame, in this case you will have to find that frame and switch to it.
driver.switchTo().frame(1);
website is taking sometime to load the element. in this case you could you explicit wait.
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("id"));
Hej Guys
I an using google visualization api to draw stacked bar chart. Its all fine but now i want to test it with selenium but having a hard time finding the elements in the google chart.
For example i want to click on the chart element but everytime i try to find an element by xpath i get exception "OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException: The element could not be found"
I read that with selenium its tricky to click on the svg images.
Is there anybody who know a solution cuz i m kind of desprate and i havent find a suitable solution on the net by myself.
My chart looks like this:
http://i48.tinypic.com/21o4swx.png
What i am trying todo is:
webdriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://localhost:59777/Tests/TestsMainView");
IWebElement element = webdriver.FindElement(By.XPath("/html/body/div/div[2]/div[2]/iframe/html/body/div/svg/g[2]/g/g[2]/rect[5]"));
Actions myAction = new Actions(webdriver);
myAction.Click(element).Perform();
Thread.Sleep(9999);
Thanks :)
Here is some advice that may help you. First your second line of code is should be
WebElement element = webdriver.FindElement(By.xpath("//img[contains(#src,'http://i48.tinypic.com/21o4swx.png')]"))
You had "IWebElement" (this was probably just a typo in your question). I changed the way the element is found searching for matching element instead of starting at the top level and working down. This is a better practice to narrow down the element you are attempting to interact with so that changes to the code don't instantly break your test. Also unless you start an xpath expression off with "//" or "xpath=" selenium Webdriver will not recognize it so even if your path never changed selenium Webdriver wouldn't be able to find it.
If I understand what you are trying to do then you can also remove lines 3-5 and replace them with the following,
element.click();
This will have selenium Webdriver zoom in on the chart provided by your link. I hope this helps
I noticed xpath cannot select anything within an svg tag. I managed to find elements using className or tagName selectors instead or you could even try cssSelectors but I am not sure about that one. Note that you can still use xpath to access parents of a node inside an svg using:
By.xpath("..");
Hope that will help.