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CosminO
CosminO

Reputation: 5226

Selenium WebDriver and xpath: a more complicated selection

So let's say my structure looks like this at some point:

..........
<td>
  [...]
  <input value="abcabc">
  [...]
</td>
[...]
<td></td>
[...]
<td>
  <input id="booboobooboo01">
  <div></div> <=======I want to click this!
</td>
.........

I need to click that div, but I need to be sure it's on the same line as the td containing the input with value="abcabc". I also know that the div I need to click (which doesn't have id or any other relevant attribute I can use) is in a td at the same level as the first td, right after the input with id CONTAINING "boo" (dynamically generated, I only know the root part of the id). td's contain nothing relevant I can use. This is what I tried as far as xpath goes:

//input[@value='abcabc']/../td/input[contains(@id,'boo')]/following-sibling::div

//input[@value='abcabc']/..//td/input[contains(@id,'boo')]/following-sibling::div

None of them worked, of course (element cannot be found). I want to know if there's a way of selecting that div and how.

EDIT: //input[@value='abcabc']/../../td/input[contains(@id,'boo')]/following-sibling::div is the correct way. This was suggested by the person with the accepted answer. Also note that he offered a slightly different way of doing it. See his answer for details.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3177

Answers (2)

Arran
Arran

Reputation: 25076

Another XPath that may work, is a bit more simple:

//input[@id='booboobooboo01']/../div[1]

Upvotes: 1

Tomalak
Tomalak

Reputation: 338386

Try

//input[@value='abcabc']/ancestor::tr[1]/td/input[contains(@id,'boo')]/following-sibling::div[1]

Note that //input[@value='abcabc']/.. only goes up to the parent <td>, that's why your's did not work.

Upvotes: 3

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