public WebElement findChildByXpath(WebElement parent, String xpath) {
loggingService.timeMark("findChildByXpath", "begin. Xpath: " + xpath);
String parentInnerHtml = parent.getAttribute("innerHTML"); // Uncomment for debug purpose.
WebElement child = parent.findElement(By.xpath(xpath));
String childInnerHtml = child.getAttribute("innerHTML"); // Uncomment for debug purpose.
return child;
}
The problem with this code is that childInnerHtml gives me wrong result. I scrape numbers and they are equal.
I even suppose that my code is equal to driver.findElement(By.xpath.
Could you tell me whether my comment really finds a child or what to correct?
Child XPath need to be a relative XPath. Normally this means the XPath expression is started with a dot . to make this XPath relative to the node it applied on. I.e. to be relative to the parent node. Otherwise Selenium will search for the given xpath (the parameter you passing to this method) starting from the top of the entire page.
So, if for example, the passed xpath is "//span[#id='myId']" it should be ".//span[#id='myId']".
Alternatevely you can add this dot . inside the parent.findElement(By.xpath(xpath)); line to make it
WebElement child = parent.findElement(By.xpath("." + xpath));
But passing the xpath with the dot is more simple and clean way. Especially if the passed xpath is come complex expression like "(//div[#class='myClass'])[5]//input" - in this case automatically adding a dot before this expression may not work properly.
I have the following HTML code:
I need to refer to the span element (last element in the tree) in order to check if it exists.
The problem is, I can't find the right XPath to it and was not able to find any question already concerning this specific issue.
I tried:
"//span[#data-highlighted='true']"
and also further successional XPaths referring to its previous nodes but was not able to actually get a working Xpath. The difficulty for me is that it has no id or title so I tried to get it through its "data-highlighted" but that does not seem to work.
Just for the sake of completeness:
I have written the following Java method which is meant to get an Xpath as its input:
public Boolean webelementIsPresent (String inputXpath) throws InterruptedException {
return driver.findElements(By.xpath(inputXpath)).size()>0;
}
Then in a test class I perform an assertTrue wether the webelement exists (the method returns a True) or wether it doesn't.
I'm open for any help, thanks in advance! :)
To identify the element "//span[#data-highlighted='true']" you can use the following xpath :
"//table[#class='GJBYOXIDAQ']/tbody//tr/td/div[#class='GJBYOXIDPL' and #id='descriptionZoom']/table/tbody/tr/td/div[#class='GJBYOXIDIN zoomable highlight' and #id='description']/div[#class='gwt-HTML' and #id='description']//span[#data-highlighted='true']"
You can get element by text
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[contains(text(), 'Willkommen')]"));
Or find div with id and based on that, find span element. There are 2 options to do that:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#id='description']//span"));
OR
WebElement descriptionDiv = driver.findElement(By.id("description"));
descriptionDiv.findElement(By.tagName("span"));
OR
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("#description span"));
Your XPath looks fine, my guess is that it's a timing issue and you need a brief wait. It could also be that the page was in a certain state when you captured the HTML and it's not always in that state when you reach the page.
There are other locators that should work here.
XPath
//span[contains(., 'Willkommen')]
CSS selectors (These may or may not work based on your current XPath results)
span[data-highlighted='true']
#description span[data-highlighted='true']
For your function, I would suggest a change. Replace the String parameter with a By for more flexibility. You can then locate an element using any method and not be restricted to just XPath.
public Boolean webElementIsPresent(By locator)
{
return driver.findElements(locator).size() > 0;
}
or if you want to add a wait,
public Boolean webElementIsPresent(By locator)
{
try
{
new WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(locator));
return true;
}
catch (TimeoutException e)
{
return false;
}
}
I'm automating our application using Selenium 2.0 and Java. I would like to get a clearer understanding how can I overcome the problem with generating random ID for my WebElement and then click on it.
I have a list of elements in my drop down that all differs only in endings:
driver.findElement(By.id(""uxMiniFinderVoyageSelect_chzn_o_1")
driver.findElement(By.id(""uxMiniFinderVoyageSelect_chzn_o_2")
driver.findElement(By.id(""uxMiniFinderVoyageSelect_chzn_o_3")
driver.findElement(By.id(""uxMiniFinderVoyageSelect_chzn_o_4")
and so on till 250.
What I did is I called Random class where I declared a random variable within the range 1 to 250
Random random = new Random();
int x = random.nextInt(250) + 1;
Now I'm searching for my element this way
private WebElement cruiseSailing = driver.findElement(By.id("uxMiniFinderVoyageSelect_chzn_o_" + x));
That's all OK and is working as expected. The problem I'm facing is sometimes error message appears after selecting some of those elements from drop down. According to my test case, I need to catch this error, capture the screenshot and choose another element from the drop down. But once I set up cruiseSailing element, it chooses the same element over and over.Please see code example below:
private WebElement cruiseSailingDropDown = driver.findElement(By.id(Some ID));
private WebElement errorMessage = driver.findElement(By.xpath("some xpath expression"));
private WebElement cruiseSailing = driver.findElement(By.id("uxMiniFinderVoyageSelect_chzn_o_" + x));
cruiseSailingDropDown.click();
cruiseSailing.click();
Thread.sleep(2000);
if(errorMessage .isDisplayed){
System.out.printLn("Error message is displayed")
cruiseSailingDropDown.click();
cruiseSailing.click();
}else{
proceed further to the next step
Please advise how can I generate another ID for my cruiseSailing webelement.
The reason why it is choosing the same element again in case of failure is you are not reassigning the cruiseSailing value to new one .
There are 2 ways which i can think of :
Assign a new value to cruiseSailing inside the "If" block. You can do something as below inside "If" block.
cruiseSailing = driver.findElement(By.id("uxMiniFinderVoyageSelect_chzn_o_" + x));
Call the Orignial method again which sets cruiseSailing value to new value.
Note: You might want to remove below lines from If block if you are going on with 2nd approach.
cruiseSailingDropDown.click();
cruiseSailing.click();
For Taking screenshot you can create a method and call it inside If block.
Code for taking screenshot
File scrFile = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
// Now you can do whatever you need to do with it, for example copy somewhere
FileUtils.copyFile(scrFile, new File("c:\\error\\screenshot.png"));
Please vote up if this helped you. Thanks :)
Webdriver unable to hit submit button due no such element found error. Below is the code and error shown in the console while running the script.
public void passwordmatch() {
driver.findElement(By.id("encrypted_pwd")).sendKeys(pwd);
driver.findElement(By.id("confirm_pwd")).sendKeys(confirm_pwd);
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='submit-btn']//*[#type='image']")).click();
if(pwd ==confirm_pwd) {
System.out.println("Password Match");
} else {
System.out.println("Password doesn't Match");
}
}
Error message is :
org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element:
{"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[#id='submit-btn']//*[#type='image']"}
Command duration or timeout: 30.04 seconds
Given the following HMTL for the submit button:
<input src="/images/application/modules/default/submit-btn.jpg" class="submit-btn" type="image">
The reason you are receiving a NoSuchElementException when using //*[#id='submit-btn']//*[#type='image'] as a locator is firstly because the first part of the XPath - //*[#id='submit-btn'] is looking for any element in the page whose id attribute is equal to submit-btn, whereas the required element has a class attribute equal to submit-btn.
The second part of the XPath - //*[#type='image'] is looking for a child element with a type attribute equal to 'image' however the required element does not have any children.
Try using the following code in the offending line and let me know if it works:
driver.findElement(By.className("submit-btn")).click();
On an unrelated note, the line where you are trying to compare the passwords - if(pwd ==confirm_pwd) { is likely to be incorrect as you are comparing whether the two strings are pointing to the same String object.
You should instead use the .equals() method in a manner similar to:
if (pdw.equals(confirm_pwd)) {
Hi try doing the following.
driver.findElement(By.id("confirm_pwd")).submit();
above code will submit the form in which element with id 'confirm_pwd' is present.
i am sure this will solve your issue.
Try removing everything after the first ]. Then give it a go.
As in:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='submit-btn']")).click();
I have a curious case where the selenium chrome driver getText() method (java) returns an empty string for some elements, even though it returns a non-empty string for other elements with the same xpath. Here is a bit of the page.
<div __gwt_cell="cell-gwt-uid-223" style="outline-style:none;">
<div>Text_1</div>
<div>Text_2</div>
<div>Text_3</div>
<div>Text_4</div>
<div>Text_5</div>
<div>Text_6</div>
</div>
for each of the inner tags, I can get valid return values for getTagName(), getLocation(), isEnabled(), and isDisplayed(). However, getText() returns an empty string for some of the divs.
Further, I notice that if I use the mac chrome driver, it is consistently the ‘Text_5’ for which getText() returns an empty string. If I use the windows chrome driver, it is , it is consistently the ‘Text_2’ for which getText() returns an empty string. If I use the firefox driver, getText() returns the expected text from all the divs.
Has anyone else had this difficulty?
In my code, I use something like this…
ArrayList<WebElement> list = (ArrayList<WebElement>) driver.findElements(By.xpath(“my xPath here”));
for (WebElement e: list) System.out.println(e.getText());
As suggested below, here is the actual xPath I am using. The page snippet above deals with the last two divs.
//*[#class='gwt-DialogBox']//tr[contains(#class,'data-grid-table-row')]//td[contains(#class,'lms-assignment-selection-wizard-cell')]/div/div
Update: The textContent attribute is a better option and supported across the majority of browsers. The differences are explained in detail at this blog post: innerText vs. textContent
As an alternative, the innerText attribute will return the text content of an element which exists in the DOM.
element.getAttribute("innerText")
The isDisplayed() method can sometimes trip over when the element is not really hidden but outside the viewport; getText() returns an empty string for such an element.
You can also bring the element into the viewport by scrolling to it using javascript, as follows:
((JavaScriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", element);
and then getText() should return the correct value.
Details on the isDisplayed() method can be found in this SO question:
How does Selenium WebDriver's isDisplayed() method work
WebElement.getAttribute("value") should help you !!
This is not a solution, so I don't know if it belongs in an answer, but it's too long for a comment and includes links, so I'm putting it an answer.
I have had this issue as well. After doing some digging, it seems that the problem arises when trying to get the text of an element that is not visible on the screen.(As #Faiz comments above.)This can happen if the element is not scrolled to, or if you scroll down and the element is near the top of the document and no longer visible after the scroll. I see you have a FindElements() call that gets a list of elements. At least some are probably not visible; you can check this by trying boolean b = webElement.isDisplayed(); on each element in the list and checking the result. (See here for a very long discussion of this issue that's a year old and still no resolution.)
Apparently, this is a deliberate design decision (see here ); gettext on invisible elements is supposed to return empty. Why they are so firm about this, I don't know. Various workarounds have been suggested, including clicking on the element before getting its text or scrolling to it. (See above link for example code for the latter.) I can't vouch for these because I haven't tried them, but they're just trying to bring the element into visiblity so the text will be available. Not sure how practical that is for your application; it wasn't for mine. For some reason, FirefoxDriver does not have this issue, so that's what I use.
I'm sorry I can't give you a better answer - perhaps if you submit a bug report on the issues page they'll see that many people find it to be a bug rather than a feature and they'll change the functionality.
Good luck!
bsg
EDIT
See this question for a possible workaround. You won't be able to use it exactly as given if isDisplayed returns true, but if you know which element is causing the issue, or if the text is not normally blank and you can set an 'if string is empty' condition to catch it when it happens, you can still try it. It doesn't work for everyone, unfortunately.
NEW UPDATE
I just tried the answer given below and it worked for me. So thanks, Faiz!
for (int count=0;count<=sizeofdd;count++)
{
String GetInnerHTML=getddvalue.get(count).getAttribute("innerHTML");
}
where,
1. getddvalue is the WebElement
2. sizeofdd is the size of getddvalue
element.getAttribute("innerText") worked for me, when getText() was returning empty.
I encountered a similar issue recently.
I had to check that the menu tab "LIFE EVENTS" was present in the scroll box. The problem is that there are many menu tabs and you are required to scroll down to see the rest of the menu tabs. So my initial solution worked fine with the visible menu tabs but not the ones that were out of sight.
I used the xpath below to point selenium to the parent element of the entire scroll box.
#FindBy(xpath = "//div[contains(#class, 'menu-tree')]")
protected WebElement menuTree;
I then created a list of WebElements that I could increment through.
The solution worked if the menu tab was visible, and returned a true. But if the menu tab was out of sight, it returned false
public boolean menuTabPresent(String theMenuTab) {
List<WebElement> menuTabs = new ArrayList<WebElement>();
menuTabs = menuTree.findElements(By.xpath("//i/following-sibling::span"));
for(WebElement e: menuTabs) {
System.out.println(e.getText());
if(e.getText().contains(theMenuTab)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
I found 2 solutions to the problem which both work equally well.
for(WebElement e: menuTabs) {
scrollElementIntoView(e); //Solution 1
System.out.println(e.getAttribute("textContent")); //Solution 2
if(e.getAttribute("textContent").contains(theMenuTab)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
Solution 1 calls the method below. It results in the scroll box to physically move down while selenium is running.
protected void scrollElementIntoView(WebElement element) {
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true)", element);
}
Solution 2 gets the text content (even for the menu tabs not currently visible) of the attribute that you are pointing to. Thus doing the job properly that .getText() was not able to do in this situation.
Mine is python, but the core logic is similar:
webElement.text
webElement.get_attribute("innerText")
webElement.get_attribute("textContent")
Full code:
def getText(curElement):
"""
Get Selenium element text
Args:
curElement (WebElement): selenium web element
Returns:
str
Raises:
"""
# # for debug
# elementHtml = curElement.get_attribute("innerHTML")
# print("elementHtml=%s" % elementHtml)
elementText = curElement.text # sometime NOT work
if not elementText:
elementText = curElement.get_attribute("innerText")
if not elementText:
elementText = curElement.get_attribute("textContent")
# print("elementText=%s" % elementText)
return elementText
Calll it:
curTitle = getText(h2AElement)
hope is useful for you.
if you don't care about isDisplayed or scrolling position, you can also write
String text = ((JavaScriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return $(arguments[0]).text();", element);
or without jquery
String text = ((JavaScriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].innerText;", element);
Related to getText() I have also an issue and I resolved so:
WebElement errMsg;
errMsg = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#id='mbr-login-error']"));
WebElement parent = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//form[#id='mbr-login-form']"));
List<WebElement> children = parent.findElements(By.tagName("div"));
System.out.println("Size is: "+children.size());
//((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", children);
for(int i = 0;i<children.size();i++)
{
System.out.println(i + " " + children.get(i).getText());
}
int indexErr = children.indexOf(errMsg);
System.out.println("index " + indexErr);
Assert.assertEquals(expected, children.get(indexErr).getText());
None of the above solutions worked for me.
Worked for me:
add as a predicate of xpath the length of string greater than 0:
String text = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//span[string-length(text()) > 0]"))).getText();