I have to pull out particular fields from cells in an HTML table. Using Firebug I was able to get the exact XPath to the cells I need (unfortunately, the cells don't have an id tag). I thought I could use DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode and pass in that path, but it doesn't seem to be working right. What am I doing wrong? Or is there a better approach to this than how I am doing it? Unfortunately, I have no experience with XPath so this is turning out harder than I expected it to be. Here's what I have so far (I know the HTML is particuarly messy, but that's not in my control to change):
Dim page As New HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument
Dim node As HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNode
page.LoadHtml(fileContents)
node = page.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("/html/body/form/div[6]/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td[2]")
Much appreciated.
Firebug maybe fixed broken html tags.
If you want to pick and Html node,it is recommend use class or id.
For example:
//div[#class='content']//table//tr[1]/td[2]
shorten the path,and use class or id selector.
if the table has it's own id,you can use:
//table[#id='tableid']/tr[1]/td[2]
try it,you will find XPATH is interesting.
Related
There are some posts about this topic but I cannot find any solution for my case, this is the situation:
I click on a link (a next page):
ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(next_el).click().perform()
Then I get the content of the new page(I'm interested on some script sections inside the body)
html = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*").get_attribute("outerHTML")
But that content is always the same, no matter how long I wait for.
The only way to get the driver with new DOM information is to do a refresh(),
but for this case that is not a valid option.
Thanks and regards.
I am not sure what exactly you are looking for here, but if I am right you want to capture the content of script tag from the page.
If that is the case capture the page source in a string variable
sorce_code = driver.page_source , after you get the sting you can extract the value by any of the available string methods. I hope it helps.
This was just a random script I made to complete a quiz but I can't seem to access the final element. I want to select the element, click the element and then send some text to the element.
I have tried to access the input box by class name, CssSelector and by XPath.
The website is https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
Here are the XPaths I have tried:
//*[contains(#class, 'email-wrapper')]
//div[contains(#placeholder, 'your#email.com')]
//div[#class="row request-info-wrapper"]
//*[#id='request - email']"
Any help is greatly appreciated as I'm new to the framework and would very much like to know what I'm not understanding about locators! Thank you!
EDIT:
I can't seem to target this element or any of its children:
You have selected wrong tag DIV.Try this following Xpath. All should work.
"//input[#id='request-email']"
Or
"//input[#name='email']"
Or
"//input[#placeholder='your#email.com']"
Your field has a (presently) unique ID of "request-email".
Thus you can simply use, as a CSS selector,
('#request-email')
Then, in you can simply tell Selenium to hit ENTER to save your data. Let me know if you need help doing that.
I want to use XPath to locate a link behind a text.
I want to use XPath to locate a link behind a text. For example, locate "one4" by "what10". You can only use the text message "what10", but you can't use it in any other way, because the information on this page will change. I want to get is the "one4" link node.
<body>
<p>
so
<br>what1 one
<br>what2two
<br>what11one4
<br>what3three
<br>what4one1
<br>what5two2
<br>what6three3
<br>what7one3
<br>what8two3
<br>what9three3
<br>what10one4
<br>just return
<br></p>
</body>
For some special reasons, what I want to pass is that the text of what10 is positioned to one4.
Please help me.
You can use below line
WebElement loginLink = driver.findElement(By.linkText("one4"));
Selenium doesn't supports xpath-2.0 but uses xpath-1.0
The element which you are trying to refer i.e. which contains the text what10 is a Text Node and Selenium can't use it as a reference. So finding the node with text as one4 with reference to the text what10 won't be possible. As an alternative if the desired node is always the last but one node you can use the following solution:
xpath:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//body/p//a[position()=last()-1]"));
Update
As per #MosheSlavin counter question here is the snapshot to demonstrate that the XPath works perfecto:
If you're visually looking at a webpage and there is something clickable and unique on the page, you'll just click it. Without thinking about the page structure.
I'm interested to see what the most concise xpath is that could be constructed to simulate this in a versatile manner.
For example, target the "I'm feeling Lucky" button on the Google homepage:
//*[contains(#*, 'Lucky')]
The above works. But would fail in the element contained Lucky as inner text, or if the wrong case was specified. As such, our xpath needs to cater for any sensitivity and also look for the given string matching inner-text as well.
How could the above xpath be expressed in the most concise yet encompassing structure?
There is nothing thats very generic and executing such xpaths could be costly also at times.
"//*[contains(#*, 'Lucky')] | //*[contains(text(), 'Lucky')]"
Above is one xpath you can combine to get some results. You start specifying which nodes you don't to examine or ones which you want to examine
"//*[contains(#*, 'Lucky')] | //*[contains(text(), 'Lucky')][not(self::script|self::td)]"
And you can keep improving it
It's not possible to create a versatile XPath to accurately/reliability locate an element by text.
Why?
Because the text evaluated by an XPath is not necessary rendered in the page.
Because there's a hight chance to end-up with multiple matches since each ancestor also contains the expected text.
But mainly because there's too many rules/specific cases to consider.
But if I had to create one, then I'd start with this one:
"(html/body//*[not(self::script or self::style)][contains(concat(#value, normalize-space()), 'MyText')])[last()]"
Get all the descendants of the <body>
html/body//*
except <script> and <style>
[not(self::script or self::style)]
where the value attribute or normalize html contains 'MyText'
[contains(concat(#value, normalize-space()), 'MyText')]
then returns the last and deepest match
[last()]
I am using XPath to find exact value:
//h5[#class='familyName productFamilyName'][contains(text(),'Dozers ')]
but it was failing because in my application there are 2 elements with text values "Dozers " and "Dozers wheel" which is come under same class.
I can't use id locators,because it is dynamically generating in my application like //div[#id="482"]/div/div[1]/h5.
Please suggest me any solution.
If you want to match element with exact innerHTML value just use
//h5[#class='familyName productFamilyName'][text()='Dozers')]
or
//h5[#class='familyName productFamilyName'][text()='Dozers wheel')]
Depending on HTML structure you might need to use [.='Dozers'] or
[normalize-space(.)='Dozers'] instead of [text()='Dozers']