Questions tagged [xpath]
XPath (XML Path Language) is language for addressing parts of an XML document, designed to be used by both XSLT and XPointer. It also provides basic facilities for manipulation of strings, numbers and booleans. XPath uses a compact, non-XML syntax. XPath operates on the abstract, logical structure ...
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Locating unique element from a set of elements that only differ by a random string contained in the id attribute
I am trying to locate and loop through a set of elements that contain an id that only differs by a contained string. This contained string is not known prior to the test.
My current attempt is to use ...
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Unable to click on link - no element found exception using Java selenium webdriver
I am using Selenium webdriver with Java. I need to click on link - Register New Consumer.
HTML:
<a href="/int/cdms/registrationType.do" target="_self">Register
New Consumer<br>
...
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C# Selenium - How to write a conditional statement with multiple elements/xpaths
I have a problem and having trouble to finding a solution.
Problem Statement:
Navigate to a webpage and check if three checkboxes are selected. If not, I'd like to select them (if only one is ...
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Sharepoint Automation
I am trying to automate SharePoint test cases. I am finding an issue while finding an element locator for actual result, updated by, update date. Does anyone know how to find the locators?
HTML:
<...
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Regarding taking Xpath [duplicate]
Kindly follow the below HTML code. I want to get the text "DefaultBP" in between the tag. If I using this XPath "//div[@class='workspace']//h1", all the texts including tag such as "Export", "Import"...
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Unable to click button using Selenium Webdriver Java
I am trying to click a button through webdriver. After inspecting the button element it highlights to the following:
XPath:
/html/body/div/div/main/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/table/tbody/tr/td[4]/form/...
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How to go to a certain Xpath by Searching a Text in Selenium WebDriver
I have below HTML which is having a table with 15 rows (below are the 2 rows for example)-
<table id="task" style="width:100%" class="border">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Task </th>...
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How to resolve InvalidSelectorException in Selenium?
selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSelectorException: Message: invalid selector
Unable to locate an element with the xpath expression .//*[@id="Toolbar"]/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/a[1]/span)[3] because of ...
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Verify Text using CSS or Xpath
I am new to automation, Selenium Web Driver and am practicing code using Amazon. I want to verify my logged in user name (Hello, Nichole) on the Amazon Home Page but anything I enter using CSS or ...
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Getting Invalid Element State Exception
I am trying to clear text from <div> section using XPath using the below line.
Clear Element Text xpath=//*[@id="intro-overlay"]/div
I am getting below Error:
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Locating Inner Text with CSS or Xpath in Amazon
I am teaching myself automation with Selenium web driver, and thought a good way was to learn off an ecommerce site such as Amazon. I am trying to locate inner text with CSS and used the following to ...
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How to get count of dynamic 'div's' nested inside a each 'td' tag?
I have table which have several <td> tags, again these tag have nested
<div> tag. But the number of <div> are dynamic. Means, for each <td> tag number of <div> are ...
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Xpath: which is much more reliable source - Chrome or Firefox?
On Google chrome, inspecting an Element and copying it's xPath gives me the following value
//*[@id='Body']/app-root/app-generic-product/section[2]/div/app-product-summary-list/app-product-summary[2]/...
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How to identify elements on DOM without using element name
<span class="" data-aura-rendered-by="2565:0">Active</span>
<!--render facet: 2567:0-->
<!--render facet: 2568:0-->
</label> == $0
<input type="checkbox" checked="...
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How to create Xpath to read text between span class?
HTML:
...<div class="ArticleCount__articleCount___lQ5f1">
<span class="ArticleCount__text___1c2Rn">Showing</span>
9
<span class="ArticleCount__text___1c2Rn">of</span>
23
...
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Can we use css properties (like background-color) for locating an element when that property is not part of the element attributes
Can we use css properties (like background-color) for locating an element when that property is not part of the element attributes? Like
If I have to get the xpath or css of this element, either I ...
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Unable to find the element using XPath
XPath: //*[@id=\"clB\"]/div[1]/div[1]/a/div
Exception:
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: invalid selector: Unable to locate an element with the xpath ...
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Locating element on DOM pages when element type changes, e.g. INPUT to A
//a[@type='text'][contains(@class,'form-control')][contains(@name,'projectsurvey')]
Do we have a way when the element name changes from input to some other For Example : class then definitely script ...
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How do I use find_elements_by_xpath to only get some elements in python selenium?
How should I use driver.find_elements_by_xpath() to get all the data-row elements that I boxed in the picture.
I do not need the other tr tags. In my current code I just check all the tr tags and ...
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How to create an Xpath for a checkbox?
I've tried the following xpath but none of them work. The id is listed differently everytime. Next to the checkbox is this word " poetin alfa"
- //input[@type='checkbox'][@value='on']
- //*[@id='id1'...
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Xpath returning 2 nodes. I am trying to return 1 node
I am using XPath to search the below web elements. My XPath command returns 2 nodes. I am trying to retrieve 1 node. Unfortunately, the web page I am testing has the exact same elements and text. Can ...
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Unable to locate element using XPath getting NoSuchElementException
I am unable to click on logout link in my web page using XPath.
XPath: html/body/div[1]/span/div[1]/a[1]
I See my code in an attachment:
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How do I get the same result for xpath1 OR xpath2 in Selenium?
How to get the same result if condition:
//div[@class='lng-info']/h5[text() = 'PMP']
or condition
//div[@class='lng-info']/div[@class='price']
is true ?
How do I write a single xpath expression ...
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Couldn't find the x path of filter in selenium webdriver
Tried this:
WebElement searchDropdown = driver.findElementByXPath("//span[@class='selected']");
Select searchFilter = new Select(searchDropdown);
searchFilter.selectByVisibleText("...
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Selenium IDE type not saving text
I am trying to create an automation tool to test a salesforce platform. When I try to create a new form, the text is displayed but it's really just an injection from Javascript. Is there any way to ...
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How to locate “Login” button of Flipkart bootstrap login page? I tried in many ways, but still unable to locate element
Below are three options I tried, but I'm not able to locate Login button. When I tried using seleniumIDE, I got this xpath=(//button[@type='submit'])[2]
But its not working in Webdriver. Can someone ...
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Unable to Switch to iframe in IE
Code Trails:
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
List<WebElement> before = driver.findElements(By.tagName("iframe"));
for (WebElement t : before) {
System.out.println("iframe" + t....
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Xpath is Unable to Locate Element.
Can anyone help me in writing xPath for below image, I wrote one but it's not working.
My xPath is //li[@class='active']//a[@class='dropdown-button btn']
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Test case execution hangs. No exception is thrown even when xpath for an element shows No matching nodes
I have a drop-down which should display a list of items. Somehow, the drop-down fails to appear and provide me with options.
When I run my test case, the drop-down does not appear. I have used and ...
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Which Xpath is more suitable?
xpath 1 : //div[@class='abc'][.="xyz"]/parent::*/div[2]/div
xpath 2 : //div[@class='abc'][.="xyz"]//following-sibling::div/div
Above two xpaths are pointing same element. Which is better and why, ...
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Selenium web driver - how to select child elements
What xpath can I use if the tag name in the code starts with li or span and they are child or parent. The trip id and the name locator didn't execute.
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XPATH FACEBOOK How can i get xpath or css selector ? - selenium/java [closed]
I automated some facebook functions for pratice selenium, but i can't click on search options.
How can i try this ?
Search:
elements:
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Xpath worked during script creation not working when replaying
HTML Tag:
<a href="/candidate/updateprofile.html">
<span class="no-of-jobs">100%</span>
<span class="grey-text">Profile Strength</span>
Update your profile &...
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Need help with passing a variable in xpath
I am automating my application using Protractor. For one of the elements, I am using xpath, which is as follow:
element(by.xpath('//ul[@id="employee-list"]/li[contains(text(),"Master Shifu")]'));
...
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XPath returns wrong element
Xpath returns wrong element
I have a problem with xPath returning wrong element in code, but working as intended when i put it in my browser and search element with such xpath. The xpath that the code ...
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SoapUI Xpath assertion: match the exact length of the field
I need to match, exact length of a string and I'm using below code for that :
declare namespace
ns123='urn:lt:sb:xmlns:services:customers:customerinformationfile:GetCustByGlobalId:1.2';
matches(//...
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How to get the number of buttons within a div using webdriver?
I have trying to get the number of buttons(count) enabled in a web page using their class names. But I couldn't get it as I wanted. Always I get count as 0.
int count = 0;
try {
...
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Unable to click on checkbox using Selenium & Java
please send me the full code I tried Some XPath and CSS:
XPath:
//div[@id='autofill']/div/label
//div[4]/div/label
CSS:
div.col-md-1.checkbox.checkbox-primary > label*
but using above ...
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How to solve java.lang.NullPointerException error in button click event?
I'm using Java,Selenium web driver and TestNG framework. I have a method to click a button in web page. But it didn't work. When debugging I could find xpath is not passed to the button. Then I tried ...
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How to find a button using both xpath and button text?
I have three buttons withing a div. All three buttons belong to same class (class names are same). What I want to do is capture each button using its text (Buttons have different texts) and xpath of ...
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Unable to click on checkbox using XPath and CSS
I am not able to click the checkbox, I tried some XPath and CSS and id but I am not able to click on the checkbox
HTML Code:
<div class="row">
<table id="orderNoDropdown" class="table ...
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How to find the first occurrence of a field that exists in multiple places
I have code that includes the following label
<label _ngcontent-c18="" translate="" for="517390_radio-button">Missing Applicant's Signature</label>
However the label and the code for it ...
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How to fetch the text from span tag?
I need to fetch text 'Finance' from the span tag below to compare that with another value which is saved in a file.But I am not able to fetch that.
<span class="panel-text col-md-8">Finance</...
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Not able to check the checkboxes on a javascript page
Here is the code I used to select the checkboxes
selectAllEmployeeInputRequired()
{ this.scrollToAndClick(this.employeeInputButton);
return browser.wait(this.isVisible(this.employeeInputModalForm))
...
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How do I get particular textNode value of a DOM with Selenium
Hello I am trying to find Load # detail from this site.
Also You can refer screenshot too.
I have tried with xpath : //div[@class='equipment_item']//text()[preceding-sibling::strong[text()='Load #:']]...
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How to write XPath under tag: strong
I want to red text under strong tag I have written XPath like:
//section[2]/section/div[1]/div/div[1]/div[2]/text()[1]
Here is the HTML code:
<div class="listing-info">
<h4>Listing ...
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Can any one explain this xpath
Anyone can you please explain this xpath please.
why we use '"+filterBy+"' rather than "+filterBy +" in this code segment.
(I just simplify the code.this not an original one.)
String filterBy = "Hio";...
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Dynamic ID locating element [duplicate]
New to Automation , I am using selenium with JAVA.
I have come across a stumbling block our developers do not assign ID to our elements and JFS assigns it own ID , however the ID's are dynamic and ...
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Selenium Python Bindings - Accessing Submenu Items
I am using Selenium to write unit tests for a website to test scientific software. The backend uses Flask to generate a sidebar where each project is clickable with a dropdown menu. You can only open ...
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Not able to find the Xpath, really complicated for me. Need help
i am not able to find the xpath for a text box and get the value from it
the code is here. please help me find the xpath to locate the box and get the value from it.
