Say I have an element (doesn't really matter what. Let's say "//div[#id='tony']/div/span" but any xpath would be OK.
To get the text on a page from this you could do something like
WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#id='tony']/div/span"));
System.out.println(ele.getText());
// Or an our system someone wrote a method so we can get all text in that
// element and everything underneath (part of that element)
System.out.println(getText(ele));
This is fine when you are running the program. But originally when you are writing and debugging with Chrome before you actually write the program. In Chrome you can do right click -> inspect and then in the bottom do a ctrl-f which opens a search box and you can type an xpath and it will highlight it (them) on the page.
Now I swear several months ago when I was debugging I could also have it display the text in that element but I don't remember how? You type something into the search box like get-text(//div[#id='tony']/div/span) but I can't remember or figure it out. Perhaps at the time I was using Firebug and not Chrome?
Does anyone know a way to have it print the text of the element? I know you can eyeball it in the HTML code but what you think is the text and what it actually is is not always the same
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I'm trying to write an application for the game Path of Exile, that lists the items in my stash on trading websites automatically.
For this I have to retrieve the items in my stash from their website. For some reason the ".getText()" functions is behaving very weird on the website. I really can't see any mistakes I did with the x-path Expressions.
Example:
Here you can see a snippet from the HTML file I am working on
screenshot of browser debugg tool
In the screenshot you can see that the x-Path I am using is selecting a element with a text element, however when I iterate over the elements and get the text with the getText() function, it returns a empty String... I really have no clue what I am doing wrong, is it the website, that is denying me to access the field?
In case it helps I add here a screenshot of the source code for outputting the text fields
printing the text of the elements(SourceCode)
5 empty Strings as output
On your place I would try to get value instead of text.
try to replace
e.getText()
with
e.getAttribute("value")
or you can also try to play with .getCssValue()
I want to send a text to a div element in web.whatsapp. I tried several ways ie using XPath, cssSelector, class name etc. but none is working for me.
This textbox comes when we attach an image in web.whatsapp.
Please step into the div and use the div with the class "selectable-text". As this is a contenteditable div you should be able to click into it and call then sendKeys() onto the element.
if this does not help please let me know then I will look in our code how we are filling such divs exactly.
You need to drill down further until you get to a web element that takes an input.
I'm trying to interact with a button on a page. Linktext and xpath do not work, there are no classes or combinations of selecting elements and looping through them I can find that work.
Here is the screen shot of the code I'm trying to do a .click()
Please help me how do i achieve the same ?
I think you have 2 options as below. I simplified your example HTML code to smoke test these queries:
Select an element based on its content. The drawback is of course that as soon as "Historical Scans" label changes to something else your query will stop working.
//nav[#id='secondaryNav']//ul[contains(#class, "menu")]//a[normalize-space(.)="Historical Scans"]
(working example on xpath tester http://xpather.com/dqZ7UWvz)
Select an element based on the position on the list. The downside is that it will stop working once this element changes its position.
//nav[#id='secondaryNav']//ul[contains(#class, "menu")]/li[3]/a
(http://xpather.com/rgexHKBB)
Based on my experience you should not rely on any other attributes or elements. Ideally, the best option would be to add ids/classes. Please let us know if this solves your problem.
I'm really having trouble automating the facebook posting process.
My script is simply unable to track the textarea in our news feed correctly.
I've tried different selectors, even the ones suggested by Selenium IDE but got no avail.
Here's a snippet of my code:
//xpath for status update box
WebElement statusUpdateBox = driver.findElement(By.xpath(DemoTestData.XPATH_STATUSUPDATE_BTN));
//click the status update box
driver.findElement((By.xpath(DemoTestData.XPATH_STATUSUPDATE_BTN))).click();
//input data in the status update box
statusUpdateBox.sendKeys(DemoTestData.DATA_STATUSUPDATE_MSG);
WebElement postButton = driver.findElement(By.xpath(DemoTestData.XPATH_STATUSUPDATE_BTN));
//click 'post' button
postButton.click();
The xPath for
DemoTestData.XPATH_STATUSUPDATE_BTN = "html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[3]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/form/div[1]/div/div[2]/textarea";
What am possibly missing?
Thanks a lot. :D
Here is what I've found. When I checked your xpath in my FB page it returned no results. (a very handy tool is a plugin called free simple firepath in firefox, be sure to get it if you don't!)
It seems unlikely that the button has an xpath ending with "textarea" are you sure that is correct?
When you run your test does the text get filled in? If not, the (first) problem is probably the findElement of the textbox.
When I looked some more I found that the css is actually very simple "textarea" . So if you'd use driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector(“textarea”))
that should return the text area.
The button has a bit of a strange css (to me, but I am quite new to this as well), but I beleieve you could find that by the text in it. In my language it says "Plaatsen" It might say something different for you. Check in Firepath!
The something like driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[text()[contains(.,'Plaatsen')]]")) should return the button.
I hope it helps! And I hope you found this answer useful, any tips on that would appreciated, it my first time answering something on the mighty Stack Overflow!
Cheers!
I am new to Selenium testing, I am trying to put the value into the textbox with the help of xpath, name & id. (java using eclipse IDE):
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//* [#id='txtEmpDepAddressLine1']")).sendKeys("2nd Main")
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[#id='txtEmpDepAddressLine2']")).sendKeys("Bangalore");
While running, textbox is not retrieve the from the above code. Can anyone help me out to solve this problem?
Use By.id instead By.xpath
If you insist xpath then:
Start with: // instead: .//
Make sure the id value is unique on page.
if using xpath in some browsers id or ID makes differnce.
It is difficult to say without the HTML, but I'd suggest a few things:
Open your page, go to the Google Chrome DevTools console, and verify you can locate the element using your xpath. So you'd type:
$x("//* [#id='txtEmpDepAddressLine1']")
and verify the text box is located.
If the sendKeys isn't working on the element at that id, I'd wonder if it is not on the text field itself, but on a containing table or something like that. Make sure the element located by the id is the input, so the sendKeys will work.
By
In the text box it is fetching the value but it can't able not store
in the text box field
do you mean you can see selenium typing those values into the textbox and then the values disappear?
If that is what is happening, it is possible there is some javascript running on the page while selenium is entering the values in the textbox. you can try to put a wait before selenium enters the value. If waiting resolves the issue, you will need to write a method to detect when the javascript is done.