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 of an XML document, rather than its surface syntax.
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A way to match on text using CSS locators
So I use xpath locators and slowly converting to CSS.
I haven't found a way to do an exact match based on text.
For example converting //a[text()='Log Out'].
I know you can do css=a:contains('Log ...
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How to handle dynamic changing ID's In XPath?
How to Handle Dynamic Changing IDs In XPath?
for example :
//div[@id='post-body-3647323225296998740']/div[1]/form[1]/input[1]
In this xpath id "3647323225296998740" is changing every time when ...
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WebDriver: find elements by text
I know that WebDriver can locate links through their text, using find_element_by_link_text or find_element_by_partial_link_text.
Is it possible to locate any element (such as li, div, span, ...) by ...
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How to write XPath if I have 'apostrophe' in my XPath element?
I came up in a situation where I have to identify an element using XPath and my element starts with apostrophe ('). I will give the example below.
This is the usual way we write some XPath.
By ...
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Which locator do you use with Selenium: CSS or XPath?
I have heard that, when using Selenium, the CSS Locator has better performance than the XPath Locator.
Which Locator do you use in your tests?
Have you seen a great performance improvement when ...
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Is jQuery faster than CSS/Xpath selectors for IE 8.0 in Selenium1?
I am planning to run my existing Selenium 1.x tests in IE 8.0.
After checking few blogs and reading this, I tried to run my tests using jQuery locators with the method mentioned here. My tests uses ...
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Webdriver: How to find the element using text() in xpath?
I'm new to selenium and HTML. I want to perform click operation for the elements "Users" and "Admins" as one after another. Below mentioned is the HTML code, unfortunately I can't modify it.
<ul ...
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Selenium.click not working on some anchor elements
The application that am working on was recently revamped and as part of that a new JQuery calendar was introduced. I need to click on a link in the calendar to select the time and date. However, ...
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"Element is no longer attached to the DOM” StaleElementReferenceException when selecting HTML table row
I am using Selenium 2/WebDriver for automation. I have a table and am trying to select a row in it. When the test runs, I can see the row become highlighted as if it is clicked, but then immediately I ...
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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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same xpath on the page with dynamic ID selenium java
I have a problem with the two same XPath with dynamic ID on the same page. I have tested for selenium in java, when I need to confirm button on delete upload file. Instead of this, test first submits ...
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How should I find the XPath using selenium webdriver and protractor
I'm a beginner in automation testing. I'm trying to select a value from data list and I got an XPath like mentioned below:
XPath : html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div/div[1]
This is the HTML for the same :...
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Locating element by link text (anchor tag innerHTML) or xpath fails in Selenium 2.0 Webdriver
I'm using Selenium 2.0 web driver. My script keeps failing whenever I try locating something in my page. It throws an exception whether I locate the element by LinkText or by XPath.
driver....
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how to find element by xpath for android appium
Since these nodes don't have ids and text, I have used xpath to find the element but find element fails
I have tried different xpaths as below but none work.
xpath=//android.view.View[10]
xpath=//...
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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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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 generate good locators for elements in Web pages?
This site contains many questions that are about finding the right locator expression (XPath, CSS, etc) for an object in WebPage or about troubleshooting problems related in invalid or dynamic ...
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How to locate an element which is inside the iframe?
I'm new to automation testing (I'm using TestNG framework and Java language) I'm having trouble in locating an element which is inside iframe.
WebElement iframeSwitch= driver.findElement(By.id("...
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How to find element by class name or xPath?
I have problems with finding this element:
I tried these finders:
IWebElement profilUploadPhoto = driverGC.FindElement(By.XPath("//button[contains(.,'submit')]"));
IWebElement profilUploadPhoto = ...
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XPATH : text()='BUY NOW' is working but not contains(text(),'BUY NOW')
In Flipkart page, I searched for Apple ipads and clicked on first search result. Here, I wanted to click on 'BUY NOW'.
Typical page looks like this:
I used the following xpath and it worked:
//...
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How to indicate an ` ` in xpath?
Say we have the following HTML code. What I want is to locate to the label element whose text is 'AgendaShowCapacity (1 remaining)' with XPath.
<div id="pageContent">
<fieldset>
&...
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Cannot get attribute value when using xpath
I met a problem when I try to get an attribute of one tag.
Here is the html code:
<rect x="66.5" y="43.5" width="26" height="13" fill="#86E067" stroke="#ffffff" stroke-width="1" class="...
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Find first IMG element using XPATH
I am trying to find first fridge IMG element in a e-Commerce page but I could not find it alone, It's identifying all Images under First DIV.. Please share you thoughts
I tried below XPATH, is there ...
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How to click a link when more than 1 exists?
I want to click the link in one container but the container contains two links having the same identifier.
For example:
<div id="container" style="height:88 px; width: 310px;">
<a class="...
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Need help to frame locator for webdriver script
I have a button reach_analysis_button with id="x-auto-7".
But directly using that i am not able to locate the element from webdriver.
I tried ("//div(@class=’x-window-bwrap’)/div[@class=’x-...
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Selenium: How to click a button using the button label?
In the HTML code like this:
<a class="test-class">
<div class="test-content">
<div class="test-time" data-start="12:13pm" data-full="12:13 PM - 12:50 PM">
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how to handle if xpath is same for multiple drop down
I have a situation where i had to handle drop down and click the drop down to select some values. There are two drop down in same page and both has same xpath. The Xpath is giving below.
//div[@name=...
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Localization of Ranorex XPaths
Our application is available in German and English, other languages may follow. Given I have an XPath like /form/button[@text="Login"], is there a convenient way to have it translated?
At the moment ...
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Using xpath to confirm <h4> text with a <strong tag> in the middle
I'm using the Java Selenium WebDriver implementation. I'm searching for a string literal in an tag which has a tag in the middle, i.e.
<h4>Some regular text <strong>followed by strong ...
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How can I select <ul> element when class is not active
How can I select "Fiyata göre Artan"?
<div class="search-top hidden-xs">
<div class="destination-info hidden-xs">
<div class="search-sort dropdown open"><div class="pseudo-border-...
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Dynamic XPath in Selenium - which input field keeps changing
I tried to find the XPath of a text field username and password, but it keeps on changing dynamically. I won't be able to use starts-with or contains in a findelement using XPath. Here's the HTML DOM-
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Find anchor (has other html elements) with specific text
I am trying to find the list item based on the contents in the anchor.
I tried using the following xpath
//li/a[contains(., 'India')]
It is working for unique items, But here, it is matching more ...
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Can we programmatically update locators on UI Change in UI test automation?
I have been working in test automation for the last 10 years. The problem that keeps coming up and surprisingly is still unresolved is:
Can we programmatically update locators on UI Change in UI test ...
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How to pull content of a div into a String
I am looking for a way to pull the html or text content of a so I could work with it for a method which validates links amongst text of messages displays on a webpage. I am using selenium and java. ...
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How to locate an element which is visible only by mouse hover in selenium webdriver
I want to find an element which is visible by mouse hover and I need to click on it and it then opens a text field. When I give the XPath for the element in fire-path, it detects 6 instances of the ...
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How to use Jmeter Xpath extractor for multiple run in dynamic API elements
XPath extractor response assertion passed first run but in second run it is getting failed because <name>pc</name> is not coming in API. How to skip this element if it is not coming in ...
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Watir can't locate an element with xpath [closed]
I got this html (It's simplified to see the deep)
<html>
<frameset>
<frame>
#document
<html>
<body>
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What do I need to do if dropdown takes more time to populate 1st element from dropdown list?
What do I need to do if drop down take time to populate 1st element from drop down list?
Select Cdropdown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@id='ClientId']")));
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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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Xpath for sign out button
I am trying to find out XPath for this "Sign Out" button, can anyone help me?
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How different the execution would be if we use ID or xpath with ID?
Since we say that IDs are faster and are preferred over XPaths, how different would the execution of the following be?
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@id='Save']")).click();
driver.findElement(...
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locating element with one class out of multiple classes inside a div using xpath in selenium
I have below two input fields and I have to find there location I can't use class selector cause iI have to identify element based on formcontrolname and ng-invalid class
<div>
<input ...
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Unable to locate element as ID changes after refreshing the in Ebay login page
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="...
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What is the hierarchy to use for finding elements - ID, class, name, xpath?
What is the hierarchy to use 'find element' by ID, class, or xpath and so on.
Which is preferred over which?
For some elements class is being used - is that recommended?
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Correct CSS selector for selenium
Which css selector's correct for the following HTML code ?
<li class="active editing" data-index="0">
<div class="view">
<input class="edit"/>
</li>
I'm trying to get ...
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Unable to click button Selenium Webdriver 3
I have a button I want to click, Selenium isn't giving me an error just stops. I've tried both xpath and css and it just stops.
<a ng-click="login();" ng-disabled="loginForm.$invalid || ...
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How to locate XPath for given tag? [closed]
I am trying to automate one of site and the below are the HTML code for same:
<a href="http://register.rediff.com/register/register.php?FormName=user_details">Create a Rediffmail account</a&...
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Selenium webdriver - Cannot find button inside modal
I cannot click on this button contained in a modal
this is the html
<div class="col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12">
<button class="btn modal-button full-btn" id="saveexit" type="button">
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How to get value of text wrapped in paragraph element <p> with Selenium in Java
I have a button, clicking on it generates a number which is wrapped in paragraph text such as <p>random number <p> , I want to get that random number value and do operations based on ...
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Xpath captured using Selenium IDE is not running in Selenium RC for Links designed in XML
The below xpath which is captured for links in selenium IDE is not running in Selenium RC.
The links are designed in XML.
selenium.ClickAt("xpath=/html/body/div/div[2]/ul/li[3]", "");
selenium....
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