I was trying to automate paytm.com site ,
Here i found Proceed button attribute has name but when i tried to use xpath checker for the name attribute , it was showing 13 matches but my question here is in the webpage from the UI level am not able to see 13 Proceed buttons instead only one Proceed button are present .
Even i tried with other attribute to find the xpath , but it showing more matches found.
Below is the HTML code for Proceed
<div class="msg-container">
<div class="btn-spinner" alt="Proceed to Recharge">
<div class="spinner hidden"></div>
<input class="btn proceed active" type="submit" data-express-text="Recharge Now" data-soft-block-text="Proceed anyway" data-default-text="Proceed" name="Proceed" value="Proceed" alt="Proceed to Recharge">
Can you please let me where am going wrong ?
This xpath returns 1 match for me
//form[#id='prepaidMobile']//input[#name='Proceed']
Also, if want use only //input[#name='Proceed'] you can get it from List of WebElements:
WebElement firstInput = driver.findElements(by.xpath("//input[#name='Proceed']"))[0];
This will work for you, I think:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//input[#name='Proceed'])[1]")));
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Am curious if anyone might know which Selenium locating element method would be used to identify the below html.
I am trying to locate and 'click'
button type="submit" tabindex="3" data-ng-click="login()" class="btn btn-default" data-ng-disabled="loginForm.$invalid" data-ng-class="{ 'gray': loginForm.$invalid }">Login</button
It depends, if you know text is not gonna change, direct use text
//button[text()='Login']
or based on attributes
//button[#data-ng-click='login()']
You can combine these two like below :
//button[#data-ng-click='login()' and text()='Login']
PS : Please check in the dev tools (Google chrome) if we have unique entry in HTML DOM or not.
Steps to check:
Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL + F -> then paste the xpath and see, if your desired element is getting highlighted with 1/1 matching node.
You can following xpath,
//button[#type='submit']
//button[#data-ng-click='login()']
//button[text()='login']
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[text()='X']")).click();
I have these 2 xpath that are different each time I load a webpage.
The xpaths were recorded by Selenium-IDE and always have mainForm_view within the id string and the text before and after this always changes.
xpath=//input[#id='abc_hyd_wuu2_8333nd_mainForm_view_jjd_uueue2_jjd_11_jkdhd']
xpath=//div[#id='abc_hyd_wuu2_8333nd_mainForm_view_kcjjcs_sjsjs_jjdj_994_kkk']/div/div[2]/div/div/div/a[1]/h2
I've tried to locate the id like below but doesn't work.
xpath=//input[contains(#id,'mainForm_view')]
xpath=//div[contains(#id,'mainForm_view')]
Which would be the correct way to do it?
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE
I've tried with CSS selector like below but it seems is taking another id that is within an input element
document.querySelector("input[id*='mainForm_view']").id
Examining the html code I see that the id I need is related with a unique class. The code is like below:
<div class="Class_p2">
<div class="Class_p3" style="...">
<input name="8333nd$mainForm$view$jjd$uueue2" type="text" class="class a1 n1-Control" value="xyz" id="8333nd_mainForm_view_jjd_uueue2" disabled="disabled" style="..">
</div>
<input name="8333nd$mainForm$view$ttyi" type="text" disabled="disabled">
</div>
I've tried the following Javascript code in Chrome console but it doesn't work
document.getElementsByClassName("class a1 n1-Control").id
How would be to get the id=8333nd_mainForm_view_jjd_uueue2 that is related with Class=class a1 n1-Control?
UPDATE2
I was finally able to do it with
document.getElementsByClassName("class a1 n1-Control")[0].id
Thanks for all the help and time.
You can write css selector as :
input[id*='mainForm_view']
for div it'd be :
div[id*='mainForm_view']
Asterisk is to match the sub string part.
Note that if any id contains mainForm_view that will also be selected, so better to check in developers tool before proceeding.
You can try finding some other element for which xpath/css locator remains same and then try to reach to this element by traversing from there. You can use parent, ancestor, preceding-sibling, following-sibling keywords in order to traverse. Hope it helps :)
I am trying to retrieve the text embedded inside the div tag. Partial html code is given below. I consulted the other existing answers, but the tag is located successfully but the text is coming back as empty string.My purpose is to retrieve the string between the 'div' tag as "You entered an invalid username or password, please try again."
I used the xpath
//div[#class='login-card js-login-card']/div[#role='alert']/div[2]
I used the css
.alert__heading.js-alert--error-text
This only getting back the tag name as div, but the text as an empty string.
Any ideas or corrections?
<div class="login-card js-login-card">
<div class="login-page__alert alert alert--error tt js-alert--error" role="alert">
<div class="alert__icon">
<div class="alert__heading js-alert--error-text">You entered an invalid username or password, please try again. </div>
</div>
<div id="cmePageWrapper" class="page-wrapper page-wrapper--card"> </div>
Try following xpath, as the required div tag is child node of div with class 'alert__icon':
//div[#class='login-card js-login-card']/div[#role='alert']/div[1]/div
Let me know, if it works for you.
Maybe you wanna try this
div[class*="error-text"]
If it didn't work try to get text by executing javascript code using this
$$( "div[class*="error-text"]" ).text() OR .val()/.html()
Good luck !
You could use contains with xpath, something like //div[contains(#class, 'error-text' ) ], using findelement will retrieve first element match the criteria. If it still returns empty, it means that the page might have more than one element which match the criteria
I am new to selenium IDE and trying to get the target in the right order.
I have tried many combination to get the right element when there is span for the button. I need to get the xpath for the "Read More" button.Can someone please advise how the target in the IDE should be.
Here is the code:
<div class="is_centered l_bottom_pad">
<a class="btn_teal_outline has_arrow" href="https://test.com/jobs/view.php?id=8">
<span>Read More</span>
</a>
</div>
In some browsers (I think it was mainly MSIE) it is necessary to address the <a> element, not its child <span> in order to click a button or link. So you should adress:
//a[span[text()='Read More']]
Or you go directly for LinkText ("Read More") instead of XPath!
Targeting for span button is very simple. Just see what is unique attribute in that element.
I feel the button text itself is unique.Try this one
xpath=.//span[text()='Read More']
I am new to selenium.I am creating test script for duplicate registration into a website .When an error is displayed for duplicate registration i want to pass the testcase .
I am getting confused regarding the property of the webelement . I am not sure as to which field should i take or as how to write the findelement for the error image displayed.
Here is the HTML tag for the element image displayed:
<td>
<img src="images/bell.png">
</td>
This is for the text displayed along with error image :
<a onclick="if(typeof jsfcljs == 'function'){jsfcljs(document.forms['navigation'],'navigation:j_id322,navigation:j_id322','');}return false" style="color:#000000;" href="#">Found 1 patient(s) with same Patient Name, Gender and Age. Click here to view details</a>
Please help .Thanks
Based purely on the details provided, the following would work;
findElement(By.css("td>img[src='images/bell.png']")
and
findElement(By.css("a[onclick]")
However, I am sure that there is more context than this. Without the full html it is hard to give better solutions