I have a structure like this:
<div>
<div>
<span class="">TextA</span>
</div>
<div>
<span class="">TextB</span>
</div>
</div>
I can find element span with TextA, and from there, I want to find span with textB, then click on it (which is not available to find it alone). So I used xpath like this:
webDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[contains(.,'TextA')]/following-sibling::span")).click();
I got exception Element is not found. I assumed these spans are siblings ?!. Can anyone help me in this case. Thanks
I got exception Element is not found. I assumed these spans are siblings ?
These two spans are not siblings - they are children of different elements and cannot be siblings.
Instead of following-sibling, you may use the following axis:
//span[contains(.,'TextA')]/following::span
Or, you may get the div element that contains the span with TextA text and then get it's following sibling:
//div[contains(span, 'TextA')]/following-sibling::div/span
The <span>'s aren't siblings. if the <span>'s were siblings, they'd have to be adjacent.
for example:
<div>
<div>
<span class="">TextA</span>
<span class="">TextB</span>
</div>
</div>
In this case, they are siblings and your selector would work.
The elements that are actually siblings, are the <div>s.
The xpath that could work for you, would be:
//span[contains(.,'TextA')]/../following-sibling::div/span
Related
This question has another version that I'm going to use to base mine Jsoup: get all elements before a certain element / remove all elements after a certain element
I want to get all .pet that are before the .friend-pets. I tried using the solution proposed in the original question but I encounter this result for this use case.
Input:
<div class="pets">
<div>
<div class="pet">1</div>
<div class="pet">2</div>
</div>
<div class="pet">3</div>
<div class="friends-pets">Your friends have these pets:</div>
<div class="pet">4</div>
<div>
<div class="pet">5</div>
<div class="pet">6</div>
</div>
<div>
Expected:
<div class="pet">1</div>
<div class="pet">2</div>
<div class="pet">3</div>
Actual:
<div class="pet">1</div>
<div class="pet">2</div>
<div class="pet">3</div>
<div class="pet">5</div>
<div class="pet">6</div>
This happens when I run:
Element petsWrapper = document.selectFirst(".pets");
Elements pets = petsWrapper.select(".pet");
// select middle element
Element middleElement = petsWrapper.selectFirst(".friends-pets");
// remove from "pets" every element that comes after the middle element
pets.removeAll(middleElement.nextElementSiblings());
System.out.println(pets);
Because nextSiblings() method only gets elements that belong to the same parent.
When I use css selectors like suggested in the 2nd answer like this:
.pet:not(.friends-pets ~ .pet)
I get this error:
Did not find balanced marker at '.friends-pets ~ .pet'
So I can't really test if it actually works.
Thank you.
My approach would be to select what you want and what you don't want with one selector. You can join selectors using comma , so it will work as AND operator. Order of elements will be kept and you will have one list of all elements "at the same level" without parents. Then you can get only the first half of that list.
Elements goodElementsWithBadElement = document.select(".pet,.friends-pets");
Element badElement = goodElementsWithBadElement.select(".friends-pets").first();
int positionOfBadElement = goodElementsWithBadElement.indexOf(badElement);
List<Element> onlyWhatYouWant = goodElementsWithBadElement.subList(0, positionOfBadElement);
System.out.println(onlyWhatYouWant);
btw I was the author of that previous answer ;)
<span class="label label-danger" style="font-size : 13px; font-weight : 400;">Critical</span>
Below is the xpath which I am using:
.//tr[#data-index='0']/td/span
I have a line in HTML source like above. So, I have used corresponding Xpath and used getText() method to get the text i.e. Critical. I am succeed in that.
But, I have another line in another page like this.
<div class="col-xs-12">
<div id="project-update-success-information" class="panel-confirmation success" style="display: none;">
<span class="fa fa-check"/>
Project Updated
</div>
Below is the xpath which I am using:-
.//*[#id='project-update-success-information']/span
I have used the corresponding Xpath and getText(),but unfortunately it doesn't retrieve the text for me. I doubted that there is no </span> close tag in the second line which causes the problem. Is there any other way to get the text?
This question has many answers already, but none of them really explains the problem. First, let us get your initial confusion about self-closing elements out of the way, before moving on to the real problem: No, it is not a problem that an element like
<span class="fa fa-check"/>
does not have a </span> tag. There is no need to indicate where it ends because the /> already tells you that this element does not contain anything and closes at this point.
Then let's look at only the fragment of the document that you show:
<div class="col-xs-12">
<div id="project-update-success-information" class="panel-confirmation success" style="display: none;">
<span class="fa fa-check"/>
Project Updated
</div>
</div>
An XPath expression like (note that most likely you do not need the . at the very beginning of the expression):
//*[#id='project-update-success-information']
will return the inner div element with all that it contains. What it does contain is, exactly in this order:
a whitespace-only text node
a self-closing span element with no content other than an attribute
the text node that contains "Project Updated"
So, it is not at all surprising that when you select the inner div and use .getText(), you end up with 2 text nodes in the result. Another way to get at the text content of an element is by using text() in the XPath expression:
//*[#id='project-update-success-information']/text()
which will return (individual elements separated by --------):
[whitespace-only text node]
-----------------------
Project Updated
The solutions are either
use getText() to retrieve all text nodes and later exclude those that only contain whitespace or
use an XPath expression that targets text nodes directly and excludes the ones that only contain whitespace. The standard way of doing this is with [normalize-space()]:
//*[#id='project-update-success-information']/text()[normalize-space()]
Note that, in general, there is no guarantee that the text content of an element will be in one single text node. It is very likely that you will sometimes encounter HTML or XML where elements have several text nodes, all of them containing non-whitespace characters, e.g.:
<div>
Project
<span/>
Updated
</div>
Try this text() method like below:-
//span[#class='fa fa-check']/text()
Hope it will help you :)
The element is empty and thus contains no text
<span class="fa fa-check"/>
If on the other hand it was like
<span class="fa fa-check">Some content</span>
then it would, as in yor first attempt, contain some text.
Without knowing more of the content I would try another xpath method: following-sibling.
Try:
driver.findElement(By.className("panel-confirmation success")).getText();
I have this html code below and I want to differentiate between these two PagePostsSectionPagelet as I only want to find web elements from the first PagePostsSectionPagelet. Is there any way I can do it without using <div id="PagePostsSectionPagelet-183102686112-0" as the value will not always be the same?
<div id="PagePostsSectionPagelet-183102686112-0" data-referrer="PagePostsSectionPagelet-183102686112-0">
<div class="_1k4h _5ay5">
<div class="_5sem">
</div>
</div>
<div id="PagePostsSectionPagelet-183102686112-1" class="" data-referrer="PagePostsSectionPagelet-183102686112-1" style="">
<div class="_1k4h _5ay5">
<div class="_5dro _5drq">
<div class="clearfix">
<span class="_5em9 lfloat _ohe _50f4 _50f7">Earlier in 2015</span>
<div id="u_jsonp_3_4e" class="_6a uiPopover rfloat _ohf">
</div>
</div>
<div id="u_jsonp_3_4j" class="_5sem">
<div id="u_jsonp_3_4g" class="_5t6j">
<div class="_1k4h _5ay5">
<div class="_5sem">
</div>
</div>
Tried using //div[#class='_1k4h _5ay5']//div[#class ='_5sem'] but it will return both.
Using //div[#class='_5dro _5drq']//span[contains(#class,'_5em9 lfloat _ohe _50f4 _50f7') and contains(text(), '')] will help me find the second PagePostsSectionPagelet instead.
you need to use the following xpath:
//div[contains(#class,'_1k4h') and contains(#class,'_5ay5')]
as selenium doesn't work properly with search of several classes in one attribute.
I mean By.Class("_1k4h _5ay5") will found nothing in any case and By.Xpath("//div[#class='_1k4h _5ay5']") can also found nothing in case of class will be "_5ay5 _1k4h" or " _5ay5 _1k4h".(as they possibly generated automatically, its may be have different position on page reload)
But for the best result by performance and by correctness I think will be the following xpath:
".//div[contains(#id, 'PagePostsSectionPagelet')][1]" -- for first div
".//div[contains(#id, 'PagePostsSectionPagelet')][2]" -- for second div
I see that dynamic in the div id is only the number so you can use something like:
WebElement element = driver.FindElements(By.XPath("//div[contains(.,'PagePostsSectionPagelet')])")[1];
This will take only the first web element.
Try using a css selector as below and refine further if required.
The code below returns a List of matching WebElements and then you grab the first one in the List.
List<WebElement> listOfElements = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("div[data-referrer]"));
WebElement myElement = listOfElements.get(0);
Hint: use the Chrome console to test your css and xpath selectors directly. e.g. use
$$("div[data-referrer]") in the console to reveal what will get selected.
Question is for JAVA + Selenium:
My HTML is:
<section class="d-menu d-outclass-bootstrap unclickable d-apps d-app-list">
<section class="standard-component image-sequence-button" tabindex="0" role="link">
<div class="image-region">
<div class="core-component image">...
</div>
<div class="sequence-region">
<div class="core-component section">
<div>
<section class="standard-component text hide-section-separator-line">
<div class="text-region">
<div class="core-component text">
<span class="main-text">BART Times</span>
<span class="sub-text">Provider</span>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="standard-component speech-bubble hide-section-separator-line">...
<section class="standard-component text">...
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="button-region">
<div class="core-component button" tabindex="0" role="link">...
</div>
</section>
<section class="standard-component image-sequence-button" tabindex="0" role="link">...
<section class="standard-component image-sequence-button" tabindex="0" role="link">...
<section class="standard-component image-sequence-button" tabindex="0" role="link">...</section>
EDIT:
All <section class="standard-component image-sequence-button"... have exact same structure and hierarchy (same attributes for all tags). The only thing that changes are the TEXT values of the tags(e.g. span)
PART1:
I'm looking for various elements inside the second section tag. So, What I'm trying to do is get the <span class="main-text"> which has a value BART Times because of the business requirement.
I already know how to get it via xpath:
My xpath (verified via firebug):
"//section//div[#class = 'sequence-region']//section[#class = 'standard-component text hide-section-separator-line']//span[#class = 'main-text' and text() = '%s']"
I can get the span tag via checking for %s values (e.g. BART Times).
However, due to design considerations, we've been told to use CSS only. So, I tried to come up with a CSS counterpart for the above xpath but did not find it.
The following CSS
"section div.sequence-region section.standard-component.text.hide-section-separator-line span[class=main-text]"
returns all the span tags under all the section tags.
Question1: How do I get the span tag which has a certain TEXT value (the %s part of xpath)?
Things I've tried for that last span tag which did not worked(according to the firebug):
span.main-text[text='BART Times']
span[class=main-text][text='BART Times']
span.main-text:contains('BART Times')
span[class=main-text]:contains('BART Times')
span.main-text[text="BART Times"]
span[class=main-text][text="BART Times"]
span.main-text[text=\"BART Times\"]
span[class=main-text][text=\"BART Times\"]
span[text="BART Times"]
span[text=\"BART Times\"]
span:contains('BART Times')
span:contains("BART Times")
span:contains(\"BART Times\")
So, basically I want to put a check on BOTH class and TEXT value of the span tag in CSS selector.
Part 2:
Then I want to get the <section class="standard-component image-sequence-button"... element where I found the <span class="main-text"> and then find other elements inside that specific section tag
Question 2:
Assuming, I found the span tag in question 1 via CSS, how do I get the section tag (which is a super--- parent of the span tag)?
If CSS is not possible, please provide an xpath counterpart for this as a workaround for a while.
CSS selectors can't select based on text. The answers to Is there a CSS selector for elements containing certain text? go into detail on why.
To select based on class and text in xpath: //span[contains(#class, 'main-text') and text() = 'BART Times']
Regarding question 1, it is not possible, as stated in the other answer here. This is another thread about the topic : CSS selector based on element text?
Regarding question 2, once again there is no such parent selector in XPath : Is there a CSS parent selector?. Now for the xpath counterpart, you can use parent axis (parent::*) or shortcut notation for the same (..), or put the span selector as predicate for the parent (the third example below) :
....//span[#class = 'main-text' and text() = '%s']/parent::*
....//span[#class = 'main-text' and text() = '%s']/..
....//*[span[#class = 'main-text' and text() = '%s']]
See the following thread for some better (yet more complicated) alternative to match element by CSS class using XPath, just in case you haven't came across link on this topic : How can I find an element by CSS class with XPath?
I have recorded an automatic test with Selenium, exported it into JAVA code and now I am fighting to complete it. The problem is that I cannot get click(); done.
This is my code, a part of it:
try {
assertTrue(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[text()='Nowa oferta dokument']"))
.getText().matches("^Nowa oferta dokument$"));
} catch (Error e) {
verificationErrors.append(e.toString());
}
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[text()='Nowa oferta dokument']")).click();
First I find the element using xpath and then using xpath I want to click on it so its settings open.
I have tried many ways to solve it, and still can't figure it out. Do you see any solution for this one?
HTML:
<p class="photo"><img src="img/document.png"></p>
<p class="name">Nowa oferta dokument</p>
<p class="price">123 zł</p>
<div class="rate ctrlViewRateOffer" data-value="0.0000">
<span class="stars"></span>
<span class="stars"></span>
<span class="stars"></span>
<span class="stars"></span>
<span class="stars"></span>
</div>
<p class="date"></p>
<div class="hide info">
<p></p>
<p><a class="ctrlClickSubmit delete" title="Usuń" data-value="delete_1007" data-form="formManageOffer" href="#"></a></p>
<p></p>
<p class="type">e-book</p>
<p>To jest opis nowo tworzonej oferty - dokumentu, który wystawię na sprzedaż, a następnie u...</p>
</div>
<div class="bgInfo"></div>
Most probable reason is that
By.xpath("//*[text()='Nowa oferta dokument']")
is matching more than one element...
Also, check if the returned element/s is clickable
Well, your selector is wrong for one:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#class='name'][text()='Nowa oferta dokument']")).click();
Should hopefully work. If not, your element is probably not clickable due to other elements in front of it.
In which case, you can simulate the click using javascript:
driver.executeScript("arguments[0].click()", driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#class='name'][text()='Nowa oferta dokument']")));
Your CURRENT selector IS matching multiple elements. Since the element you are trying to select is at least two elements in, it is matching every parent object in the tree above the element you actually want, since they ALL contain that as the text().