My question is related to zkoss and dynamically added components from the Java side.
Whenever I'm using appendchild on any element (like on a Div) it always adds an extra Div as some kind of container. Why is that?
Example, here is a part of a Composer class:
...
#Wire("div#myDiv")
private Div testDiv;
...
...
Label myLabel = new Label();
myLabel.setValue("Test");
myLabel.setClass("test-label");
testDiv.appendChild(myLabel)
So instead of this:
<div id="myDiv">
<span class="test-label">
...
</span>
</div>
I get something like this:
<div id="myDiv">
<div id="hj973"> <!--this is the extra div -->
<span class="test-label">
...
</span>
</div>
</div>
In most cases this is not a problem, except when I'm trying to use the span's as a grid with float, because then of course that div shouldn't be there.
Why is this? How can I prevent it?
I don't know why there is a extra div, but you could write
test-label:parent {
...
}
in your css file so the outer div behaves the way your span
should do now and just ignore span.
If this don't help, I'll check this later, I don't have the time right now.
Related
<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?
When I open a page, there is code that looks like the following:
<div id="policySetup_content">
<div id="bCS_insureds_contentWrap" style="display: none;">
<div id="bCS_policy_contentWrap" style="display: block;">
<div id="bCS_risks_contentWrap" style="display: none;">
<div id="bCS_rating_contentWrap" style="display: none;">
<div id="bCS_billing_contentWrap" style="display: none;">
<div id="bCS_attachments_contentWrap" style="display: none;">
<div id="bCS_submit_contentWrap" style="display: none;">
</div>
How would I go about getting the #id of whichever one is set to (style="display: block;) inside the #id policySetup_content?
The reason for this is so I can know which page I'm on (because it can be any one of them for various reasons). I need to know the page in order to know which Wrap id to use when working with elements.
Judging by this previou SO question you should be able to use the CSS Selector (div[style*="display:block"]), something along the lines of the below (untested).
String id = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div[style*=\"display:block\"]").getAttribute("id");
Because Selenium will not interact with elements that are not visible, you should be able to pull all the DIVs under the parent DIV and only get the one that is not hidden. I've never tried this approach before but I think it will work...
String id = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("#policySetup_content > div[id]")).getAttribute("id");
BTW, if you aren't familiar with CSS Selectors this reads find an element with ID (#) policySetup_content that has an immediate child (>) DIV that has an ID. This may need to be tweaked depending on the real HTML that you are dealing with. If it doesn't work, let me know and I can try to help tweak it.
CSS Selector reference
So I am writing automation tests using selenium and I am having a lot of trouble selecting the second element in a list of divs with the same class names
Boolean isExists2Accounts = driver.findElements(By.xpath("(//div[contains(#class, 'item-name')])[2]")).size() < 0;
if(isExists2Accounts)
{
//Finds second div element that has classname of item-name and clicks on it
driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//div[contains(#class, 'item-name')])[2]")).click();
}
else
{
driver.get("javascript:alert('There isn't a second account or you don't know how to select it!');");
Thread.sleep(5000);
org.testng.Assert.fail("transferTest6() Failed due to There isn't a second account or you don't know how to select it!");
}
HTML structure looks like this:
<div class="item-list">
<div class="item-name">
<div> clickable area </div>
<div class="button-wrap"></div>
</div>
<div class="item-name">
<div> clickable area </div>
<div class="button-wrap"></div>
</div>
<div class="item-name">
<div> clickable area</div>
<div class="button-wrap"></div>
</div>
<div class="item-name">
<div> clickable area </div>
<div class="button-wrap"></div>
</div>
</div>
Not really sure what I am doing wrong here, I looked at the html and there are 5 divs with the specified class name. Very new to selenium in general, using eclipse/junit/webdriver.
I have seen several questions similiar to this, and trying solutions people have posted have not worked. I have seen some suggestions to use .get(2) and I will try and implement that in the mean time.
Any help you could give would be good.
get(2) is THIRD element, not the second, as the countage begins from 0.
So:
driver.findElements(By.cssSelector(".item-name")).get(1).click();
OR depending on where is yr clickable
driver.findElements(By.cssSelector(".item-name div:not(.button-wrap)")).get(1).click();
Hey all the answer that was given by Stanjer works, I tested it with different markup, the developer that built the system I am testing through a random mousedown event (not click) for the html I am trying to interact with which was causing the problem.
So final solution with problem if it was a click event would be:
driver.findElements(By.cssSelector(".item-name")).get(1).click();
Just like he said.
However in this case I am instead going to send Javascript to the console to work with functions that have already been created by the developer.