I am using Selenium IDE and need to store a span id value:
<span id="ustData"
data-itemId="2130078"></span> <div class="clear"></div>
</div>
I want to store the value "2130078". This value changes for each page but is not visible. I have looked far and wide for a solution.
Currently using xpath location:
StoreAtribute
//data-itemId[#span='ustData']
From documentation I have read this seems correct?
When I run the test I get: [error] Element //data-itemId[#span='ustData'] not found
Any help would very much appreciated.
Your XPath should be:
//span[#id='ustData']
to match your span tag with an id attribute of 'ustData'
Then if you want to get the data-itemId attribute you can do:
//span[#id='ustData']/#data-itemId
Related
Quick one, i am trying to avoid using xpath and using css selectors due to performance issues xpath can have so i would like to know the right approach of locating for example "A" in the list
<div class="input-search-suggests" xpath="1">
<div class="input-search-suggests-item">A</div>
<div class="input-search-suggests-item">B</div>
<div class="input-search-suggests-item">C</div>
</div>
Currently i am locating A using xpath / span but it would be indeed sufficient locating all elements and then grabbing A from the list that have same class which is "input-search-suggests-item"
#FindBy(xpath = "//span[contains(text(),'A')]")
CSS_SELECTOR does not have support for direct text what xpath has.
What this means is, for the below xpath
xpath = "//span[contains(text(),'A')]"
based on text A you can not write a css selector.
Instead to locate A using css selector, you can do :
div.input-search-suggests > div.input-search-suggests-item
In Selenium something like this :
#FindBy(cssSelector= "div.input-search-suggests > div.input-search-suggests-item")
Even though it will have 3 matching nodes, but findElement will take the first web element.
Also you may wanna look at nth-child(n)
div.input-search-suggests > nth-child(1)
to make use of index to locate A, B, C
Here is the Reference Link
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 automate test case using Protractor and Jasmine. The problem is I have an "article" web element tag that gets created at runtime and this web-element has a as sub element. This div element has a "id" tag associated with it. The structure of the code is below.
<article class="a b c d" data-ng-repeat="xyz repeat">
<div id="THIS IS WHAT I WANT" class="class name">
</article>
Now I am able to get get hold of the article web-element. but I am not able to get the ID attribute in the div. The ID values is generated dynamically. Kindly suggest how I can get the ID value.
Thank you
You can use a CSS Selector like this:
article > div
This will get you a div inside of an article. Now you can use this to play around and specify the selector further with classes or other stuff.
If you managed to get the div element you can then pull out the idea using (not sure if the syntax is correct but you should get the idea):
element.getAttribute('id')
1) element(by.xpath(//div[#class='class name'])).getAttribute('id')
2) element(by.xpath(//article [#class='abcd']//div[#id='THIS IS WHAT I WANT'])).getAttribute('id')
You can use chains like this:
element(by.classname('')).element(by.className('classname'));
or
element(by.css('css of parent')).element(by.css('child css'));
or you can use element(by.repeater('repeat in reapeats')).element(by.css(''));
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
The some part of the html of the webpage which I'm testing looks like this
<div id="twoWideCallouts">
<div class="callout">
<a target="_blank" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a>
</div>
<div class="callout last">
<a target="_blank" href="http://youtube.com">Youtube</a>
</div>
I've to check using selenium that when I click on text, the URL opened is the same that is given in href and not error page.
Using Xpath I've written the following command
//i is iterator
selenium.getAttribute("//div[contains(#class, 'callout')]["+i+"]/a/#href")
However, this is very slow and for some of the links doesn't work. By reading many answers and comments on this site I've come to know that CSS loactors are faster and cleaner to maintain so I wrote it again as
css = div:contains(callout)
Firstly, I'm not able to reach to the anchor tag.
Secondly, This page can have any number of div where id = callout. Using xpathcount i can get the count of this, and I'll be iterating on that count and performing the href check. How can something similar be done using CSS locator?
Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT
I can click on the link using the locator css=div.callout a, but when I try to read the href value using String str = "css=div.callout a[href]";
selenium.getAttribute(str);. I get the Error - element not found. Console description is given below.
19:12:33.968 INFO - Command request: getAttribute[css=div.callout a[href], ] on session
19:12:33.993 INFO - Got result: ERROR: Element css=div.callout a[href not found on session
I tried to get the href attribute using xpath like this
"xpath=(//div[contains(#class, 'callout')])["+1+"]/a/#href" and it worked fine.
Please tell me what should be the corresponding CSS locator for this.
It should be -
css = div:contains(callout)
Did you notice ":" instead of "." you used?
For CSSCount this might help -
http://www.eviltester.com/index.php/2010/03/13/a-simple-getcsscount-helper-method-for-use-with-selenium-rc/
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To read the sttribute I used css=div.callout a#href and it worked. The problem was with use of square brackets around attribute name.
For the first part of your question, anchor your identifier on the hyperlink:
css=a[href=http://youtube.com]
For achieving a count of elements in the DOM, based on CSS selectors, here's an excellent article.