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How to Deal With Changing Elements In XPath?

You can use partial matches with css selectors. So where you have id=ember26 above, in that case, you could use: css=input[id^='ember'] (the ^ means starts with) You can also use endswidth, and co …
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Selenium: How to delete single characters from a textbox?

While using the ASCII valid (\u008) is valid, there are already defines for this which makes your code more readable, as such: element.sendKeys(Keys.BACK_SPACE); For a list of the key names, there' …
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IE always opens with random local host and message: "This is the initial start page for the ...

In IE, this will usually show as the default page at the start of a test, until you provide it with a valid URL to navigate to. Especially if you attempt to do something to the present (empty) page, …
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GUI / report for Selenium / Maven test failures

There are plenty. For example, if integrating with Jenkins, there's the Selenium HTML Report which allows you to drill down in the summary as well.
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How can I dynamically create an xpath string in Python for a webdriver xpath selector?

The problem looks (from the error) like it may have something to do with the extra '(' in your selector. Given you state the original statement works: elem2 = driver.find_element_by_xpath("(//a[cont …
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How to download a file using Selenium's WebDriver?

Here's a solution. Set Firefox's preferences to save automatically, and not have the downloads window popup. Then you just grab the file, and it'll download. So, something like this: FirefoxProfile f …
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