I am not able to find the element in the selenium webdiver with java the Details are given below. I had used all class as given below in addition to Xpath:
<a href="#">
<span>
<i class="fa fa-users"></i>
Employee
</span>
<span class="left-menu-list-right-icon">
<i class="fa fa-chevron-right" aria-hidden="true"></i>
</span>
</a>
Xpath is given as below
.//*[@id='sidebar-menu']/ul/li[2]/a
The element is not found
Assuming there is no easier way and nothing unique about the elements here, the way I would do this is to first retrieve all elements containing at least one child with class selector "fa-users" (note: I am using pseudo-code - the calls may not be exactly correct):
elements = browser.findElements(By.Class, "fa-users").Parent();
Next, I would loop through the list of parent elements to find the one with inner text that contains the word "Employee", something like:
if element.InnerText().Contains("Employee") then element.Click();
The reason I would use this method is that it looks like this application uses dynamically generated DOM elements, which means that the XPath you found as a selector may not be the same as the XPath to the element when you run your test.
