What command in webdriver should I use to make sure it clicks the specific text i.e Last Month
the code is
<div class="dt_padded_medium_div">
<a onclick="setLastMonth()" href="#">Last Month</a>
I tried xpath by using firepath but still doesnt work
it was
//*[#id='block-2']/div/div[3]/table/tbody/tr[1]/td[5]
I used
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='block-2']/div/div[3]/table/tbody/tr[1]/td[5]")).click();
but still didnt work, am I missing something?
Update:
Got the Code working guys, thanks for the help!
If there is only one 'a' element in the page with this text, try this XPath:
//a[text()='Last Month']
If there are more than one element, please, post the full HTML tree else we're unable to write a xpath without know the tag path and ensure it will work
Are you sure your xPath is correct?
Install FirePath on Firefox and experiment with your xPath as on screenshot below.
Also, that does look like a long and brittle xPath. Look up xPath cheat sheets to learn how to make your xPath more robust.
In your case I would imagine something like:
//*[#id='block-2']/descendant::a[text()='Last Month']
(get the element with a particular ID, then search for an <a></a> in that element, no matter how deep, with a particular text)
In your question, you have used a "id" that is not shown in your code, where is #id='block-2'. It is possible for you to have used the wrong id. For us to help you, can you please provide the whole HTML code?
What I can suggest based on the information you have provided is:
Making sure the Xpath you have provided is unique, there is an add-on for Firefox called Firebug you can use. It will help you find out the xpath you are after fast and easy. What you need to do is basically:
download firefox and install it;
download firebug add-on and install it to firefox;
you will notice there is a small bug symbol to the top right of your tool bar, please enable it;
you will see a console pops out, click on inspection button and click on any web element you want to inspect and its html code will be highlighted in the console;
right click on the highlighted code and choose to copy its xpath to clipboard. This way you will never get your xpath wrong.
Here is a quick tutorial:
http://www.wikihow.com/Find-XPath-Using-Firebug
P.S. There are more than one way to locate a webelement, please consider using the following options as well:
Css selector
class name
id
This link will direct you to an awesome cheat cheet.
http://scraping.pro/res/xpath-cheat/xpath_css_dom_recipes.pdf
Hope it helps.
Please try to use below code to click on the text Last Month
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//a[text()='Last Month']")).click();
Hope this helps.
You can use below code to click on the link containing the text 'Last Month'
driver.findElement(By.linkText("Last Month")).click();
First of all make sure that your xpath works correctly, try to use more specific xpath other than just td[5] or smthn like that, for example above could be like:
//div[#class='dt_padded_medium_div']/a[#href] - meaning, we need to find <div> element with specific parent and within it <a> element that has href property
There are a few possibilities.
If you're site doesn´t get rewritten to much you could just go for the link name via
driver.findElement(By.linkName("Last Month");
You could also go for any of the attributes if your site is subject of many rewrites like this and just put "href" and "#" or "onclick" and "setLastMonth()" as arguments when calling it.
static WebElement getLink(String Attribute, String Value /*String ItemText*/){
List<WebElement> Elements = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));
for(int Counter = 0, Counter < Elements.size(); Counter++){
if(Elements.get(Counter).getAttribute(Attribute).contains(Value) /* && Elements.get(Counter).getText().equals(ItemText){
return Elements.get(Counter);
}
}
return null;
}
If you remove the comments it will go completely sure and check for the Attributes and the displayed text.
I have hard-coded the link destination URL in the below link.
I need to re-factor the code so that the URL is set dynamically (reading it from a property file) Any one has an idea how to achieve that in wicket?
Thank you.
You can use org.apache.wicket.markup.html.link.ExternalLink in your Java code. Its model can read/load it from anywhere you need.
This is possible without the need for any Java code.
Given a properties file with a key for the url and the links label:
url = http://www.stackoverflow.com
label = Help me!
One can simple use Wicket message system:
<a wicket:message="href:url"><wicket:message key="label" /></a>
Tested with Wicket 6.19.0
In the Wicket guide: Reading bundles with tag <wicket:message>
When I hover over a custom html tag that I'm using from a platform (Polymer) or even a custom one I made it says that you can mark such a tag as custom somewhere. Is there a place to do this in Intellij? I'm using the latest version (14).
Here is a screenshot of what I'm talking about:
Any help would be appreciated! It would be nice to get rid of all these error highlights when I'm working with Polymer. Thanks!
Place the caret over the highlighted tag, hit ALT+ENTER and select Add tag to custom tags.
However that works only for current project. If you want to set the ignored tags globally, try this:
Go to Settings/Inspections, find the Unknown HTML tag inspection, select the Default profile instead of Project Default and specify the tags separated by comma in the textfield in the bottom right corner. Here is a screenshot:
I am playing around with x-editable and I am wondering how they do the last example in their demo page.
http://vitalets.github.io/x-editable/demo-bs3.html?c=inline (Custom input, several fields)
I can't find any thing that actually shows you the code for each part. I only can dig through it with firebug but that is more time consuming and I rather just see the parts I need.
Any have the pieces of code that does it?
Yes, #marcb is right!
So here: https://github.com/vitalets/x-editable
Or to be exact: https://github.com/vitalets/x-editable/blob/master/src/inputs-ext/address/address.js
The code for this can be found in the X-editable Bootstrap 3 download, under "inputs-ext", and then the "address" folder.
I'm trying to run the line of code below in my script, but I get an error saying that more than one object with these properties was found on the page.
Browser("browser").Page("page").WebElement("css:=.normalDayOfMonth").Click
So, I tried adding an index, as shown below:
Browser("browser").Page("page").WebElement("css:=.normalDayOfMonth", "index:=0").Click
But now it's not detecting any object at all. Could anyone help me out with this? Thanks!
Edit: For anyone else who comes across this, it turned out I was using QTP10 and as Motti pointed out below, CSS and Xpath support was only added in QTP11.
The support for using CSS and XPath to identify test objects was added in QTP11, in your comments you say that you're using QTP10 which would explain why you're facing problems...
What's probably happening is that QTP is ignoring css as an unrecognizd property so your description matches all elements and then when you add index:=0 it brings one of the invisible elements (e.g HEAD or HTML) which can't be clicked.
If all you're trying to do is match the className you can use QTP's class identification property ("class:=normalDayOfMonth").
BTW the Highlight function is an undocumented function similar to the object repository's highlight functionality and can be very useful in troubleshooting tests.