dojo query for checkboxes - dojo

I want to get all my checked checkboxes from a form and i do like this(and it works)
var cbs = dojo.query('input:checked', 'f');
I wand to add another selector(class selector) to get all checked checkboxes from a form with a specified class. I tried this one but it doesn't work
var cbs = dojo.query('input:checked .xClass', 'f');

Try this dojo.query('input.xClass:checked', 'f');
Pseudo-selectors like :checked act like filters and should be put as suffixes of other selectors. You can select checkboxes with a specified class first using input.xClass, then append the :checked as the suffix.

What does the 'f' do in this case? I tried google for the parameters but couldn't find anything. – user1477388 Oct 11 '13 at 16:20
the second parameter of the query is the starting node for the query.
For instance, the query for < input > tags begins at "#{id:inputText1}" followed by the found nodes having the value of those found nodes, smited away with a null string.

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Selenium finding elements returns incorrect elements

I'm using Selenium to try and get some elements on a web page but I'm having trouble getting the ones I want. I'm getting some, but they're not the ones I want.
So what I have on my page are five divs that look like this:
<div class="membershipDetails">
Inside each one is something like this:
<div class="membershipDetail">
<h3>
VIP Membership
</h3>
</div>
They DO all have this same link, but they don't have the same text ('VIP Membership' would be replaced by something else)
So the first thing was to get all the divs above in a list. This is the line I use:
listElementsMembership = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(div[class^='membershipDetail'])
This gives me five elements, just as I would expect. I checked the 'class' attribute name and they are what I would expect. At this point I should say that they aren't all EXACTLY the same name 'membershipDetail'. Some have variations. But I can see that I have all five.
The next thing is to go through these elements and try and get that element which contains the href ('VIP Membership').
So I did that like this:
for elem in listElementsMembership:
elemDetailsLink = elem.find_element_by_xpath('//a[contains(#href,"EditMembership")]')
Now this does return something, but it always got me the element from the FIRST of the five elements. It's as if the 'elem.find_element_by_xpath' line is going up a level first before finding these hrefs. I kind of confirmed this by switching this to a 'find_elements_by_xpath' (plural) and getting, you guessed it, five elements.
So is this line:
elemDetailsLink = elem.find_element_by_xpath('//a[contains(#href,"EditMembership")]')
going up a level before getting its results? If it is, now can I make it not do that and just restrict itself to the children?
If you are trying to find element with in an element use a . in the xpath like below:
listElementsMembership = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(div[class^='membershipDetail'])
for elem in listElementsMembership:
elemDetailsLink = elem.find_element_by_xpath('.//a') # Finds the "a" tag with respect to "elem"
Suppose if you are looking for VIP Membership:
listElementsMembership = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(div[class^='membershipDetail'])
for elem in listElementsMembership:
value = elem.find_element_by_xpath('.//a').get_attribute("innerText")
if "VIP Membership" in value:
print(elem.find_element_by_xpath('.//a').get_attribute("innerText"))
And if you dont want iterate over all the five elements try to use xpath like below: (As per the HTML you have shared)
//div[#class='membershipDetail']//a[text()='VIP Membership']
Or
//div[#class='membershipDetail']//a[contains(text(),'VIP Membership')]
You've few mistake in that css selector.
Quotes are missing.
^ is for starts-with, not sure if you really need that. In case it's partial matching please use * instead of ^
Also, I do not see any logic for the below statement in your code attempt.
The next thing is to go through these elements and try and get that
element which contains the href ('VIP Membership').
Code :
listElementsMembership = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("div[class*='membershipDetail']")
for ele in listElementsMembership:
e = ele.find_element(By.XPATH, ".//descendant::a")
if "VIP Membership" in e.get_attribute('href'):
print(e.text, e.get_attribute('href'))
You can give an index using a square bracket like this.
elemDetailsLink = elem.find_element_by_xpath('(//a[contains(#href,"EditMembership")])[1]')
If you are trying to get an element using XPath, the index should start with 1, not 0.

XPath selector returns empty list

I'm trying to scrape data from store: https://www.tibia.com/charactertrade/?subtopic=currentcharactertrades&page=details&auctionid=12140&source=overview
There is no problem with getting data from 1st and 2nd table, but when I goes down, xpath returns only empty lists.
even tried to save response in file:
scrapy fetch --nolog "https://www.tibia.com/charactertrade/?subtopic=currentcharactertrades&page=details&auctionid=3475&source=overview" > response.html
for table with skills everything works good
sword = response.xpath('//div [#class="AuctionHeader"]/a/text()').get()
but when it comes to getting for example gold value, I get only empty list:
gold = response.xpath('/html/body/div[3]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[5]/div/div/div[3]/div[2]/div[2]/table/tbody/tr/td/div/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/div[2]/div/table/tbody/tr[3]/td/div/text()').get()
In chrome/firefox both selectors works smooth, but in scrapy only 1st one
I know there might be some problems with data updated by javascript, but it doesn't look like this case
Doesn't look like it's a javascript problem. Think you're not getting your XPATH selectors correct. It's best to be as specific as possible and not to use multiple nodes down. Here we can select the attribute TableContent to get the tables you want. There you can select each individual table that you require if needed.
Code Example
table = response.xpath('//table[#class="TableContent"]')[3]
gold_title = table.xpath('tr/td/span/text()')[2].get()
gold_value = table.xpath('tr/td/div/text()')[2].get()
output
'Gold: '
'31,030'
Explanation
Using the class attribute TableContent, you can select which table you want. Here I've selected the table with the gold values. I've then selected each row and the specific element which has the gold value. The values are hidden behind span and div elements. get() returns a string, getall() returns a list.

clicking on dynamic values in a web table in selenium

Below is my Table structure:
I want to click on the first cell of "policyno " column only if value is not empty
How do I achieve this?
Since you didn't specified, I have no idea what programming language do you need, but the idea is the same for all. I've used C# for the code below:
Get all the policy number elements. This can be easily achieved by getting the elements by xpath. In your case, I expect the lblPolicyNumber to be present in all:
IList allPolicyElems = driver.FindElements(By.Xpath(".//*[contains(#id,'lblPolicyElements')]"));
Now, you have 2 options to click on the element you need. First, you click on an element using his position in the list: allPolicyElems[0].Click(); (not the best way to do it) or by using LINQ (or lambda expressions for Java) to get the element by the text (perhaps you have the text stored in a variable from some previous actions): allPolicyElems.FirstOrDefault(t => t.Text == "your_text_here").Click();
This can be further expanded by applying the same logic in case you need to get the correct element by knowing other cell values from the same row.
Try using this.
WebElement elem = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//table/tbody/tr[2]/td[3]/span/a"));
if(!(elem.getText().trim().equals(""))){
elem.click();
}

Capybara, selecting 1st option from dropdown?

I've done a search and most of the related google results have returned just in general selecting an element from a dropdown. However the ID's in this case for the elements in the dropdown are dynamically generated unfortunately.
This is for a base test case, so I basically just need to select for example the first one. The text is also the same for the elements in the dropdown (not sure if that helps).
Is there such an example of this?
Im using cucumber with caybara(using selenium driver) integration
You can find the first option element and then use the select_option method to select it.
For example, if the select list has an id "select_id", you can do:
first('#select_id option').select_option
As #TomWalpole mentions, this will not wait for the element to appear. It would be safer to do one of the following:
first('#select_id option', minimum: 1).select_option
or
find('#select_id option:first-of-type').select_option
Alternatively you can get the first element text then select it by select function:
first_element = find("#id_of_dropdown > option:nth-child(1)").text
select(first_element, :from => "id_of_dropdown")
After two days of searching and reading, this article was amongst one of a few that was helpful. Hopefully, this can help someone else!
I created a few methods like so, excuse the naming..I changed it.
def some_dropdown(id, text)
dropdown = find(id).click
dropdown.first('option', text: text).select_option
end
def select_form
within 'content#id' do
some_dropdown('#id', text)
click_link_or_button 'Submit'
end
end
I also referenced this.
I've tried to select an option from a modal dropdown. After trying all listed methods, and many other from other threads - I totally gave up and instead of using clicks or select_option just used keyboard keys
find(:select, "funding").send_keys :enter, :down, :enter
In case it still complains - try:
find(:select, "funding", visible: false).send_keys :enter, :down, :enter
Worked like a charm, selecting first option from a dropdown.

How do I set value of DateTextBox?

So basically I have these two DateTextBoxes and I want to copy the value from one to another? Sounds easy, right? Still, it is not...
I tried to do it this way:
dojo.byId("datetextbox1").value = dojo.byId("datetextbox2").value;
it actually looks like the value changes as the content of the field changes, but it doesn't really. When I inspect the element with firefox it still contains the old value in the code and when I try to submit the form, the old value is sent!
So my question is: how should I change that damn value?
You'll want to set the value on the widget and not directly on the node.
dijit.byId("datetextbox1").set('value', dijit.byId("datetextbox2").get('value'));
dijit.byId grabs widgets, dojo.byId grabs dom nodes