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Using JUnit I'm attempting to automate the eBay login. I cannot select the email/username field because field changes id on refresh. Any ideas?
input size="40" maxlength="64" name="962970435" id="962970435" type="text" autocapitalize="off" autocorrect="off" placeholder="Email or username" class="fld"
The following XPath should work:
//input[@placeholder='Email or username'][@type='text']
If 'ID' of your webElement changes everytime after refreshing the page in this situation:
First of all look for any other attribute which Is not changing every time In that div node like name, class etc.
Option 1: If this div node has class, name attribute then you can write XPath as below.
//input[@class='fld']
OR
//input[@type='text'][@class='fld']
OR
//input[@name='962970435']
Option 2: You can use the starts-with function.
//input[starts-with(@placeholder,'Email or username')]
Option 3: You can use contains function. Same way you can use contains function as given below.
//input[contains(@class,'fld')]
//input[contains(@type,'text')]
I prefer css selectors:
input[placeholder='Email or username'][type=text]
Also, I'd prefer to scope to the login form, e.g.
form#SignInForm input[placeholder~='[E|e]mail'][type=text]
You may need to scope further with
form#SignInForm div#pri_signin input[placeholder~='[E|e]mail'][type=text]
You can use either CSS Selector or Xpath. As CSS selector is already discussed above, let me point out how i achieved this using Xpath.
To identify , we will have to use a combination of 2 elements separated by AND operator as below.
Xpath : //input[@placeholder='Email or username' AND @type='text']
Hope this helps! Asky
