I using xpath="//div[#class='localityKewordDropDown']/descendant::div[#class='over']/span[text()='Dwarka, New']
but the element is not getting recognized. NosuchElementException is getting encountered.
Could anyone help me out here.I want to click the drop down value highlighted in the image.
It's failing beacuse there is a space after the word 'New'. The following should work.
//div[#class='localityKewordDropDown']/div/div[text()='Dwarka, New ']
Or consider serarching for the element containing the text rather than matching the entire text.
//div[#class='localityKewordDropDown']/div/div[contains(.,'Dwarka, New')]
And as cathal mentioned, you are searching for a div and not a span.
EDIT:As you request (although I don't believe there is a difference between "descendent" and "//".
//div[#class='localityKewordDropDown']/descendant::div[text()='Dwarka, New ']
//div[#class='localityKewordDropDown']/descendant::div[contains(text(),'Dwarka, New')]
Contains is an xpath function that allows you to query on something containing a value. It can be used with attributes, nodes but it's generally most useful for finding elements containg text. The reason this is working where as your query for the exact string fails is because the element you seek is padded with a trailing space. The contains query will find the element you are seeking as it's ignoring this trailing space.
i dont see anyw spans around your element, try the following:
WebElement name = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#id='keyword_suggest']//div[text()='Dwarka, New']"));
Try this:
WebElement name = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(text()='Dwarka, New')]"));
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I try to get the xpath for the following button on instagram making an automate unfollowing soft. enter image description here
I found it just like this:
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[#class="qF0y9 Igw0E rBNOH YBx95 ybXk5 _4EzTm soMvl "]').click()
But i want to itterate over all ,,Following" Buttons , but like this is stuck at the first one!
This is my Code:
fBody = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[#class='isgrP']")
for i in range(1, 1500):
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[#class=" qF0y9 Igw0E rBNOH YBx95 ybXk5 _4EzTm soMvl "]').click()
#driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[text()='Following']").click()
print("Am apasat follow")
sleep(5)
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//button[#class="aOOlW -Cab_ "]').click()
sleep(5)
driver.execute_script('arguments[0].scrollTop = arguments[0].scrollTop + arguments[0].offsetHeight;', fBody)
print("Ma bag la somn 1 min")
sleep(2)
print("salut")
Selenium does Not "like" empty or white spaces in the attributes.
I suggest using a CSS selector and using *= in order to find text contains:
driver.find_element_by_CSS('//div[class*="qF0y9"][class*="Igw0E"]').click();
Avoid using white or empty spaces and, underscores (_) and hyphens (-) for the element's attributes.
I think the classes on the elements change as yours do not match with mine. Here is a more generic XPath that matches the "following" button.
//div//button[div[text()='Following']
When using this in a test I found it instantly failing unless I surrounded it with an explicit wait condition.
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//div//button[div[text()='Following']"))).click();
Ill post my example when Instagram stops giving me connectivity issues.
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.
I got the below solution here,
jse.executeScript("document.getElementsByName('body')[0].setAttribute('type', 'text');");
and then passing data using SendKeys.
But it is creating duplicate text field with text attribute and hidden text field still exist..
You have two input tags. I am assuming you want to execute the script against the second one not the first.
Also, I am using querySelector and that allows you to pass cssSelector to identify the element you want.
Note: Make sure the format of dateToPass is correct
String dateToPass = "01/01/2015";
String scriptText = "document.querySelector('.propertyYear.require').setAttribute('value','" + dateToPass + "')";
((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript(scriptText);
I'm trying to select an element given by:
/html/body[#id='someid']/form[#id='formid']/div[#id='someid2']/div[#id='']/div[#id='']/div[#id='']/table/tbody[#id='tableid']/tr[7]/td[2]
Now the html of that row I'm trying to select looks like this:
<tr>
<td class="someClass">some text</td>
<td class="someClass2">my required text for verifying</td>
</tr>
I need to check whether my required text for verifying exists in the page.
I used selenium.isTextPresent("my required text for verifying"); and it doesnt work
So now I tried with selenium.isElementPresent("//td[contains(text(),'my required text for verifying')]")
This works sometimes but occassionally gives random failures.
Tried with selenium.isElementPresent(//*[contains(text(),'my required text for verifying')]) too..
How do I verify this text on the page using selenium?
The problem is not with the page taking time to load. I took screenshots before the failure occurs and found that the page was fully loaded so that shouldnt be the problem.
Could someone please suggest any way to select this element or any way to validate this text on the screen?
Try locating it by CSS:
assertText(selenium.getText("css=.someClass2"), "my required text for verifying");
The above should give a better failure message than isElementPresent, but you can still use that with CSS locators:
assertTrue(selenium.isElementPresent("css=.someClass2"));
If there is an issue with the load times you could try waiting for the element to be present:
selenium.waitForCondition("var value = selenium.isElementPresent('css=.someClass2'); value == true", "60000");
Some other XPath locators that might work for you, if you prefer not to use CSS locators:
//td[contains(#class, 'someClass2')
xpath=id('tableid')/tr[7]/td[2]
xpath=id('tableid')/descendant::td[contains(#class, 'someClass2')][7]
I've never heard of selenium; but your initial XPath is unnecessarily fragile and verbose.
If an element has an id, it's unique; using such a long XPath just to select a particular element is unnecessary; just select the last element with the id. Further, I see that you're occasionally selecting xyz[#id=''] - if you're trying to select elements without id attributes, you can do `xyz[not(#id)] instead.
Assuming your initial XPath is basically correct, it would suffice to do something like this:
//tbody[#id='tableid']/tr[7]/td[2]
However, using a specific row and column number like that is asking for trouble if ever anyhow changes details of the html. Also, it's atypical to have id's on tbody elements, perhaps the table element has the id?
Finally, you may be running into space-normalization issues. In xml, multiple consecutive spaces are often considered equivalent to a single space, and you're not accounting for that. In particular, if the xhtml is pretty-printed and contains a line-break in the middle of your sought-after text, it won't work.
//td[contains(normalize-space(text()),'my required text for verifying')]
Finally, text() explicitly selects
child text nodes - so the above xpath won't select elements where the text isn't the immediate child of td (e.g. <td><b>my required text for verifying</b></td>) won't match. Perhaps you mean to look up the concatenated text vale of all descendents:
//td[contains(normalize-space(string(.)),'my required text for verifying')]
Finally, type conversion can be implicit in XPath, so string(.) can be replaced by . in the above, leading to the version:
//td[contains(normalize-space(.),'my required text for verifying')]
This may be slow on large documents since it needs to normalize the spaces and perform a string search for each td element. If you run into perf problems, try to be more specific about which td elements need to be inspected, or, if you don't care where the text occurs, try to reduce the number of "calls" to normalize-space by normalizing the entire doc in one go (e.g. via /*[contains(normalize-space(.),'my required text for verifying')]).