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Michael Durrant
Michael Durrant

Reputation: 96454

xpath - how to find info

Given this HTML:

<tr class="even" id="district_22">
    <td class="name">Virginia Beach City Public Schools</td>
    <td class=""><a href="/admin/districts/22" class="member_link delete_link" data-confirm="Sure?" data-method="delete" rel="nofollow">Delete</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="even" id="district_23">
    <td class="name">Virginia City City Public Schools</td>
    <td class=""><a href="/admin/districts/23" class="member_link delete_link" data-confirm="Sure?" data-method="delete" rel="nofollow">Delete</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="even" id="district_24">
    <td class="name">Virginia Town City Public Schools</td>
    <td class=""><a href="/admin/districts/24" class="member_link delete_link" data-confirm="Sure?" data-method="delete" rel="nofollow">Delete</a></td>
</tr>

I am trying to use Selenium and xpath with it. I am having problems when trying to select the 'delete' link that belongs to 'Virginia Beach City Public Schools'. I am new to xpath.

I am trying:

xpath=(//td[text()='Beach')]/@class.contains('delete'))

but it is not finding the element.

Note: I cannot use the ID as these are repeated tests and the ID changes each time.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 237

Answers (3)

Alex Okrushko
Alex Okrushko

Reputation: 7372

tr[@id="district_22"]//a[contains(@class,'delete_link')] would be a lot better.
It's not good to look at the text. After all it may get localized and edited in other ways. ID's however are ment to be unchanging and not duplicated.

Upvotes: 1

Barath
Barath

Reputation: 39

I think you want to execute a automate scripts in loop, if this is the case then you can try the below code:

 for(i=1,dist=22; i<-count; i++,dist++)
 {
    ....
    ....
    driver..findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=District_"+dist+"]/..."))
 }

Upvotes: -1

Nat Ritmeyer
Nat Ritmeyer

Reputation: 5678

Try this:

//td[contains(text(),'Beach')]/../td/a[contains(@class,'delete_link')]

Upvotes: 4

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