In my web page I'm having following two buttons:
<button onclick="addToSelected('newApplicationForm');">Add Strategy</button>
<button onclick="submitAddNewApplication('newApplicationForm');">Submit</button>
How do I identify them using methods of the By class?
By.xpath("//button[contains(.,'Add Strategy')]")
By.xpath("//button[contains(.,'Submit')]")
Notice that it is same as:
By.xpath("//button[contains(text(),'Add Strategy')]")
By.xpath("//button[contains(text(),'Submit')]")
string buttonText = "Add Strategy"; var allButtons = driver.FindElements(By.TagName("button")); var button = buttons.First(button => button.Text == buttonText);
For Example...Login button is available on login screen...
//Click on Login
WebElement click = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='btnLogOn']"));
click.click();
The xpath examples here will work - but you could also use a css selector to match inside the contents of the "onclick" attribute.
By.cssSelector("button[onclick^=addToSelected]")
By.cssSelector("button[onclick^=submitAddNewApplication]")
In this case I've used the "starts with" attribute selector, but you could use the "contains" selector instead (*=)
yes, as Tarun says, you can use xpath, but in our project, it's usually a required action for developer to add IDs to each elements. because,sometimes the UI or the text may change, then you had to modify your test script.
