Below is my xpath
driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[9]/div/a/div")).click();
In above code value of div[6] is keep changing.
Sometimes it will
driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[6]/div/a/div")).click();
or
driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[1]/div/a/div")).click();
Please provide solution.
We faced this issue with dynamic page content making XPath identification basically useless. We took the decision to make sure everything that needed to be identified in a test would have an id set. So:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[6]/div/a/div")).click();
becomes:
driver.findElement(By.id("myDivId")).click();
Use div 'id' or 'class' instead of div[6].
like:
/html/body/div[#id='div_id']/div/a/div
(or)
/html/body/div[#class='div_className']/div/a/div
Related
I've an element with html -
<h3>App-1 Playground Login</h3>
I want to identify it with entire text - App-1 Playground Login, but causing issues to identify it. Please help how this element can be identified.
Please use the below xpath. I have already tested that and it is working fine. In the second argument of the translate method you need to type "ALT+0160" and in the third argument you will have to put just a normal space.
//h3[contains(translate(text(),' ',' ' ), 'App-1 Playground Login')]
One of the way to select your title could be :
//h3[text()= concat('App-1 Playground',codepoints-to-string(160),'Login')]
Works fine on http://xpather.com/
Such structure is given
<div class="user-number">123</div>
<div class="user-state">
<span class="u-state-icon icon icon-1"></span>
<span> User1</span>
</div>
I've tried such (incorrect) xpath for locating User1 by user-number and do not understand where is the problem..
xpath=//*[#class='user-number' and text() = '123']/following-sibling::*[contains(#class,'user-state')]/descendant::*[contains(#text,'User1')]
What is the best way to debug it?
For example, if
xpath=//*[#class='user-number' and text() = '123']/following-sibling::*[contains(#class,'user-state')]
locates some element - how to print out its text property - to check which element is actually located?
Your xpath expression is, surely, incorrect - #text should be replaced with text() (or just .):
//*[#class='user-number' and . = '123']/following-sibling::*[contains(#class,'user-state')]/descendant::*[contains(.,'User1')]
Debugging xpath expressions is usually done using the browser developer tools: in the firebug, or inside a browser console. For instance, in the google-chrome console, you can execute the following:
$x("//*[#class='user-number' and . = '123']/following-sibling::*[contains(#class,'user-state')")
And see if there is a match.
Or, you can also debug it inside your code. For example (using python), find the first div element and print out it's text:
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#class='user-number' and . = '123']")
print(element.text)
The meta-question is, how to debug XPath expressions?
Well, for simple ones like these, it's really best to just stare at them till you see the problem. Check the spelling of names, check namespaces, check whitespace issues. At least it's easier than debugging regular expressions.
For more complex XPaths, try breaking them up. Remove a predicate and see if that makes a difference. Or work in reverse, build up the path expression by adding conditions, checking at each stage that it still finds something.
If you're really seriously into XPath, consider schema-aware processing: this will match your XPath expression against a schema to make sure it makes sense.
Consider using a visual XPath processor for debugging. There are a number around. I use the XPath processor in oXygen (though not really for debugging the XPath, more for discovering the content of the document, but those tasks often need to be done together.)
I know I can find element by id:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='some_id']"));
And I can find all elements with this id, but I want to find all elements with an id attribute. I'm looking for something like:
driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[#id]"));
// or
driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[#id='*']"));
// or
driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[contains(#id)]"));
I'm using Java. Thanks!
UPD: The only solution for me is to get all elements by "//*", go through them and get their id attributes. Is there a way to get all attributes at once, something like "//*#A" from Java?
Attribute A of element where A contains 't'
//E[contains(#A,'t')]/#A
or
//E[contains(#A,'t')]#A
Attribute A of any element
//*/#A
or //*#A
so I use java too. So if you need to find all elements with id attribute you can simply use
driver.findElements(By.xpath(//*#id))
Hope this helps you.
ALso look here. Nice manual for xpath and css selectors
have you tried "//*[contains(#id, '')]"
How can I check whether a given text string is present on the current page using Selenium?
The code is this:
def elem = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(.,'search_text')]"));
if (elem == null) println("The text is not found on the page!");
If your searching the whole page for some text , then providing an xpath or selector to find an element is not necessary. The following code might help..
Assert.assertEquals(driver.getPageSource().contains("text_to_search"), true);
For some reason, certain elements don't seem to respond to the "generic" search listed in the other answer. At least not in Selenium2library under Robot Framework which is where I needed this incantation to find the particular element:
xpath=//script[contains(#src, 'super-sekret-url.example.com')]
A simpler (but probably less efficient) alternative to XPaths is to just get all the visible text in the page body like so:
def pageText = browser.findElement(By.tagName("body")).getText();
Then if you're using JUnit or something, you can use an assertion to check that the string you are searching for is contained in it.
assertThat("Text not found on page", pageText, containsString(searchText));
Using an XPath is perhaps more efficient, but this way is simpler to understand for those unfamiliar with it. Also, an AssertionError generated by assertThat will include the text that does exist on the page, which may be desirable for debugging as anybody looking at the logs can clearly see what text is on the page if what we are looking for isn't.
I have a page with some JavaScript and it includes dojo.parser and has parseOnLoad set to true and whatnot.
Later in the page, I have another JavaScript tag that has:
dojo.require('dijit.form.FilteringSelect');
dojo.registry.remove('ID OF SELECT BOX');
After all that, I have a select box with dojoType="dijit.form.FilteringSelect".
Whenever I load the page, I get:
undefined Could not load class 'dijit.form.FilteringSelect'. Did you spell the name correctly and use a full path, like 'dijit.form.Button'?
Any ideas why? If I put the require statement in the first JavaScript tag, it works (but that tag is in a more global file, so I don't want it there).
dojo.registry is not correct. we have only dijit.registry.remove function. Maybe that is causing the problem.