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Unable to find an element (Selenium, Java)

I am trying to the following element:
<span data-dojo-attach-point="lN" role="btn" aria-selected="false" class="xTreeNLbl">Find</span>
The following is the Java code:
private WebElement search_btn = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#data-dojo-attach-point='lN' and contains(text(),'Find')"));
search_btn.click();
It's unable to find the element. Please help. Thanks.

you are wrong at the xpath //div
as this is <span> tag not <div> tag
you should write like this,
driver.findElement(By.xpath("*//span[text()='Find']")).click();

Your xpath is almost correct, you just need to correct tag name with Span
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[#data-dojo-attach-point='lN' and contains(text(),'Find')"));

One option may be to try and find the element using one of it's attribute, like its class if it's unique.
Taken from this previous question (Find element by attribute), the formula is:
element[attribute='attribute-value']
So if you have,
You can find it using:
By.cssSelector("a[href='mysite.com']");

Please try with the follow code:
//span[#role='btn' and #class='xTreeNLbl']
If this code does not solve your error, pass me the html dom code of the page and I will help.

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");

How to click on a link with a span tag inside using selenium java

I am having a problem in clicking the link text given inside a span tag.
html code :
<div id="menu" style="width: 1752px;">
<div class="dd_menu" dd_event_id="dd_event_2">
<a class="dd_menu_menu_entry dd_menu_entry_clickable" href="javascript:void(0);" style="left: 3px; width: 111px;" dd_menu_id="0">
<a class="dd_menu_entry dd_menu_entry_clickable" href="javascript:void(0);" style="left: 114px; width: 131px;" dd_menu_id="1">
<span class="text" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">FirstMenu</span>
I need to click on the text 'FirstMenu' .
I have used the xpath : .//*[#id='menu']/div/a[2]/span
It does not seem to work. How do I fix it?

If your requirement is to "click on the link FirstMenu", then you should use that as the locator. No need to mess around with XPath.
driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("FirstMenu")).click();
The .partialLinkText() locator strategy should account for any extra whitespace padding due to the extra span element.

Your xPath returns span element so you're clicking that span. To make your xpath return a link ament your query to the following:
//*[#id='menu']/div/a[span]
This query returns a "link" that has span element as a child.

Try to use below xpath :-
//span[contains(.,'FirstMenu')]
If it doesn't work then there may be any frame present. You need to switch it on first.
Please let me know if there is more element with name FirstMenu on DOM
Hope it will help you :)

The problem got solved by using the same xpath i specified above with the usual syntax driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='menu']/div/a[2]/span")).click(); after i gave the order by which testcases have to be executed and using #Test(priority=something) and giving some implicit waits.
Thank you all for the suggestions.
regards,
roma

It is not good to use xpath. If the html of the page is changed your code would stop working. Try with css selector.
This is is simple code and you can modify it for you case:
var collection = driver.getelementsBy(By.cssSelector('div#menu div'))
It should return you collection with elements
And after that you can iterate through collection and find the element you want to click.
Hope the answer helps you.

presenceOfAllElementsLocatedBy could not find the element

I am using Selenium and Java to write a test, when I use the code below:
List<WebElement> elements = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfAllElementsLocatedBy
(By.xpath("//div[.//span[text()='Map']]//*")));
for (WebElement e : elements) {
System.out.println("=>" + e.getTagName() + "<=");
}
it shows all the web elements in that <div> tag.
Result:
=>span<=
=>div<=
=>div<=
=>path<=
=>path<=
=>span<=
As you see, some of the elements tag-name is path but when I use the code below it says that I could not find the element.
List<WebElement> elements = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfAllElementsLocatedBy
(By.xpath("//div[.//span[text()='Map']]//path")));

It not easy to find the real issue with out knowing your HTML structure.
While I think there is a issue in your xpath
Try below xpath
//div//span[text()='Map']//path
Hope it will help you :)

By.xpath("//div[.//span[text()='Map']]//* will return all the decedents of span[text()='Map'] in the html hierarchy.
For example, this html structure will produce the same results you have
<div>
<span>Map</span>
<div></div>
<div>
<path></path>
<path></path>
</div>
<span></span>
</div>
As you can see, <path> is not <span> direct child, so By.xpath("//div[.//span[text()='Map']]//path is not a valid xpath.

The issue was related to some web elements that Selenium cannot navigate, the web element that I was trying to catch was inside a svg web element which is not detectable by Selenium have a look here this is exactly what was happening to me.

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!