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accessing the class name Selenium Webdriver

I am trying to access a web element in this example I am trying to access the className
driver.findElement(By.className("more-option")).click();
from bellow but it fails.
<div class="text-center">
<a class="small text-muted js-more-options" href="#">More
Options</a> = $0
</div>
My goal is to be able to test the ability to click More options button
Edit
I have tried
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("td[title='More options']")).click();
and
driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("options")).click();

There are to many option you can click on element.You can use contains().
Contains() is a method used in XPath expression.
driver.findElement(By.XPath("//a[contains(text(),'More Options')]")).Click();
or
driver.findElement(By.XPath("//a[contains(#class,'small')]")).Click();
if you get more than one element then you have to use index and click on particular element.

Find element using By.className just for single class name.
Try following approach.
By css selector:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('div.text-center a.small.text-muted.js-more-options').click()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('a[class="small text-muted js-more-options"]').click()
By xpath:
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[#class="text-center"]//a[#class="small text-muted js-more-options"]').click()
By partial link text:
driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text('Options').click()

How to get value from <h1> tag using class in Selenium WebDriver, Java

I have html code:
<div class="formCaptionContainer fill-width" data-dyn-bind="sizing: { width: $dyn.layout.Size.available }">
<h1 class="formCaption" data-dyn-bind="text: $data.Caption, click: $data.GoGridView">Expense report for Aditi Mehta - GS1-000282, testing2</h1>
<h2 class="formCaption-context" data-dyn-bind="text: $data.ParentTitleFields">Aditi Mehta : GS1-000282</h2>
</div>
I want to get the value Expense report for Aditi Mehta - GS1-000282, testing2 from /h1 tag
Any one know how to do it?
I've tried :
By.xpath(".//div[#class='formCaption']/h1";
Above showing no element found
By.className("formCaption");
Above showing blank data
By.xpath(".//*[#class='formCaption']/h1");
Above showing no element found

This code work for me very well
String textprint=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//h2[#class='formCaption-context']")).getText();
System.out.println(textprint);
Hope It will solve your problem

Try this one
String msg= driver.findElement(By.xpath(//div[contains(#class='formCaptionContainer')]/h1 ).getText();

Can you try the below Xpath.
String msg=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#class='formCaptionContainer fill-width']/h1[#class='formCaption-context']")).getText();

As per the HTML you have shared, the node attributes looks dynamic to me. So we have to induce WebDriverWait as follows :
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.textToBePresentInElementLocated(By.xpath("//h1[#class='formCaption']"), "Aditi Mehta - GS1-"));
System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//h1[#class='formCaption']")).getAttribute("innerHTML"));

You need to consider your locator strategy, the following provide good preferences for general case approach.
location by ID globally unique elements
locate by name for page unique elements
locate by css as catch all case
You should also take a look at the PageObject pattern.
It appears the page is using a JS library to display the contents through late binding/resolution. Your test needs allow for this and wait until the page elements you are interested in are fully rendered. Find out from the developers what the element looks like before it is resolved and afterwards. Late resolution is one considerations in determining your locator strategy. The strategy should include fluent waiting and default time-outs for elements to appear.
This is not a problem of fixing a single locator.

Thanks all for your help. It is working fine now. I use the below code
By headingExpenseText = By.xpath("//*[#class='formCaption'][contains(text(),'Expense report for')]");
public String getTitleEx()
{
return driver.findElement(headingExpenseText).getAttribute("innerHTML");
}

This worked for me:
String titleElem = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#class='formCaptionContainer fill-width']/h1")).getAttribute("innerHTML");
assertEquals("Worked", titleElem);

What do you need exactly, Data displayed on web page or textValue used in HTML code?
If your locator is correct , then instead of getText(), you can try getAttibute("innerHTML") like below,
By.xpath("//*[#class='formCaption'][contains(text(),'Aditi Mehta')]").getAttribute("innerHTML");

Java Selenium. Find element by text for certain xpath

Trying to find an xpath expression to use in:
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("XPATH HERE"))).click();
The element says "Invite Users" on the page and i need to be able to click on it
I need to find the element /a[#id='inviteUsers_8ef17ba4-b739-4fb6-8198-3862ea84c381_toggle'] but the problem is the characters after "inviteUsers_" is dynamically generated
I have already tried these:
"//*[contains(.,'Invite Users')]";
"//a[contains(.,'Invite Users')]";
And these give NoSuchElement exceptions.
This is the complete XPATH:
/html/body/div[#class='col-xs-10 col-xs-offset-2 main']/fieldset[#class='form-horizontal']/div[#id='roles']/div[#id='entitlements']/div[#class='panel panel-default '][3]/div[#id='service_8ef17ba4-b739-4fb6-8198-3862ea84c381']/div[#class='panel-body']/div[#class='panel panel-default'][1]/div[#class='panel-heading']/h4[#class='panel-title']/a[#id='inviteUsers_8ef17ba4-b739-4fb6-8198-3862ea84c381_toggle']

You can solve it with starts-with():
//a[starts-with(#id, "inviteUsers_")]

If this does not work try find a unique parent.
//div[contains(#id, 'service')]//a[contains(#id, 'inviteUsers')]

How to identify Elements using text attribute by Selenium Webdriver in TestNG

I have just started working on Selenium Webdriver and wanted to try out a command that will identify any element based on the text it shows in the UI.
The HTML Structure of the attribute is shown below.
<div class="cuesLoginProductName">Select One</div>
i want to identify the div name on the Text "Select One". Can this be done in Selenium Webdriver. I have done it before in Ruby using the command
#browser.div(:text=>'Select One').present?
Please let me know how i can identify the element.
Thanks and Regards
Sushanth.G

Try using xpath //div[text()='Select One']
Driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[text()='Select One']"));

Select invalid html-tag with Selenium

I am trying to get a WebElement with Selenium:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#name='j_username']"))
But Selenium says: "Unable to find element with XPath ...".
The XPath is valid, I proofed it with FirePath.
But the input element has the following invalid code:
<input size="10" type="text" name="j_username" maxlength="8">
I can't change the html-file, despite the fact is there any solution to get the webElement?
Thanks in advance!

try select element with css selector. and also verify in firepath(firebug addon that element is located properly).
so your css selector be something like
input[name='j_username']
2nd approach is to use internal firebug mechanism for finding xPaths of elements.
See screen attached below
After these manipulations driver shoulda handle element properly.

Well I will suggest adding an id to your html code -
<input id="j_username"size="10" type="text" name="j_username" maxlength="8">
and findElement by id -
driver.findElement(By.id("j_username"));
I have faced similar issues with xpath(borwser issues??) but id never fails for me. ;)
By the way I feel your code should be -
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[#name='j_username']"));

The best solution is to find out what selenium is doing wrong, but without a URL or sample page to test on it's a little hard. Is there anyway you could dump the HTML into a jsfiddle? If there is do that and paste the url into the question and I'm sure someone can find a solution.
If not however, another way to get the results is to do it with jQuery. If firebug is picking it up but not selenium, then there's no reason why jQuery wouldn't get it. Here's how to go about doing that if needed:
Step 1: Is jQuery already present on the page? If so then you don't need to do this bit, otherwise you will need to add it yourself by using driver.executeScript(addjQueryScript) where the script does something like this.
Step 2: call WebElement input = driver.executeScript(elementSelector); where the elementSelector script would be something like \"return $('input[name=\"j_username\"]')\");
My jQuery's not so good, but I believe that should work...
Best of luck!