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.
Related
HTML looks like following
<input class="text-input text-input-md" dir="auto" ng-reflect-klass="text-input" ng-reflect-ng-class="text-input-md" type="email" aria-labelledby="lbl-14" autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" placeholder="" ng-reflect-type="email">
the code fails to find login box...tried by attribute
var email_xpath = "//*[type='email']"
then xpath
var email_xpath = "/html/body/ion-app/ng-component/ion-split-pane/ion-nav/page-login/ion-content/div[2]/ion-list/ion-item[1]/div[1]/div/ion-input/input"
var email = webDriver.findElement(By.xpath(email_xpath))
but still unable to get the element....
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most of the solutions posted below works with selenium firefox driver. The issue was really with htmlunit driver that i was using in scala. Probably it cannot handle javascript properly. I changed it with firefox driver and your solutions works well. The application being tested is an Ionic app (angular), hence i will have to look for another headless solution later.
//*[type='email'] is not correct XPath. Try below instead:
//*[#type='email']
Note that type='email' predicate means child node with string value 'email':
<input>
<type>email</type>
</input>
While #type='email' means attribute type with value "email"
The previous answer is correct but You can try this also //input[#type='email']
The generic syntax is something like as mentioned below for xpath
// - means relative xpath, can be present anywhere inside DOM
tagName - means html tags like td,tr,span,br,input etc
#- denotes start of attribute name present inside html tag
value - actual attribute value present inside DOM
//tagName[#attribute='value']
You can use any XPath, as some are already mentioned by #Andersson and #zsbappa
some others are
//input[#class='text-input text-input-md' and #type='email']
//input[contains(#type,'email')]
Since you are using WATIR, you don't have to write xpath, write the below code, it would work.
b.text_field(type: "email").set "abc#gmail.com"
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(''));
Working with automated testing, I have come across the following issue quite a lot of time: I want to find an element on the page, but the element has to be at a specific region of the page.
Take the following as an example:
I have a searchfield with type-ahead on the site. In my sidebar, I have the element I am seraching for (lets call it "Selenium"), but that is not the element I am interested in, I want to see if my type-ahead search is delivering the expected result when searching for "Selenium".
<body>
<header>
<searchfield>
<searchresults>
<a .... >Selenium</a>
<searchresults>
</searchfield>
</header>
<aside>
...
<a .... >Selenium</a>
...
</aside>
</body>
If I in selenium webdriver search for the linktext "Selenium" it will find both entries, the one in the sidebar aswell as the one in the searchfield.
Furthermore am I not able to wait for the searchresult with the WaitForVisible command on the linkText as Selenium will find the element in the sidebar and conclude that the element is preset.
So my question is:
"With selenium webdriver, how do I search for an element within a specific region?"
Poking around with this issue, I came across the use of Xpath. With this I could create "areas" where I want to search for an element. As an example, I went from
html/body/div/aside/div[2]/ul/li
to
//div[contains(#class,'coworkerwidget')]/ul/li
Now the code is MUCH more dynamic, and less prone to errors if our frontend guys edit something in the future.
Regarding the search, I could now set up something like the following code
//div[contains(#class, 'searchfield')]//div[contains(#title, 'searchfield') and contains(., '" + searchword + "')]"
First we specify that we want to look in the searchfield area:
//div[contains(#class, 'searchfield')]
I can then set some more criteria for the result I want to find:
//div[contains(#class, 'title') and contains(., '" + searchword + "')]
Some litterature on the subjects for further reading.
http://www.qaautomation.net/?p=388
http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xpath_syntax.asp
Click a button with XPath containing partial id and title in Selenium IDE
Retrieve an xpath text contains using text()
I have an issue clicking on the below HTML:
<div id="P7d2205a39cb24114b60b80b3c14cc45b_1_26iT0C0x0" style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:500;" class="Ab73b430b430a49ebb0a0e8a49c8d71af3"><a tabindex="1" style="cursor:pointer;" onclick="var rp=$get('ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ReportViewer1_ctl10_ReportControl');if(rp&&rp.control)rp.control.InvokeReportAction('Toggle','26iT0C0x0');return false;" onkeypress="if(event.keyCode == 13 || event.which == 13){var rp=$get('ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ReportViewer1_ctl10_ReportControl');if(rp&&rp.control)rp.control.InvokeReportAction('Toggle','26iT0C0x0');}return false;"><img border="0" src="/Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd?OpType=Resource&Version=10.0.30319.1&Name=Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.HtmlRenderer.RendererResources.TogglePlus.gif" alt="+"></a> 2013</div>
I have used the below script to click anchor inside a div tag. For the above html code it is not fixed only end part of id example "26iT0C0x0" is fixed. The script that I have used is:
WebElement e1=wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//div[ends-with(#id,'26iT0C0x0')]/a")));
e1.click();
You can use the 'contains' method within an xpath lookup:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[contains(#id,'26iT0C0x0')]")
I would recommend you to consider CSS selector alternative as CSS working faster, than xpath.
So 'contains' in attribute in CSS stands for '*=', for example
if we want to find attribute by 'CSS' ending in this: <htmlTag A="blablaCSS" > we need do the following:
String CSSselector="htmlTag[A*=CSS]";
and you get this element searched.
So considering your example CSS selector be like:
String cssSearched="div[id*=26iT0C0x0] a";
also try to click not on link - a
but on parent div as well:
String cssSearched="div[id*=26iT0C0x0]";
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(cssSearched));
hope this works for you.
As Mark Rwolands already mentioned: the xpath-Function 'ends-with()' isn't supported in Selenium 2.
Also, if you maybe consider to use chromeDriver in the future, I would recommend clicking the image, not the anchor, see:
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/help/clicking-issues
edit:
Also your IDs are looking generated. I wouldn't count on them for a stable test-environment.
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