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Reputation: 405

Webdriver implicit wait for a dynamic ID

I am using Webdriver in Java and I need to wait for an element which has a dynamic ID to show up on the web page.

For example, I have the following statement for the implicit wait: WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30); wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("dynamicID")))

dynamicID is the prefix of the element's ID that I am waiting for, and normally it comes with a number after which I can't really predict.

There was some good answers here Finding an element by partial id with Selenium in C#.

I tried to change my code to be

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id(^="dynamicID")))

and it is not working.

I tried to use the page factory:

@FindBy(id ^= "dynamicID")
private WebElement something;

and it is not working too.

So I have to questions: 1. how do I use ID partial match in my implicit wait statement? 2. if I am using the page factory, and assume the @FindBy is working, how do I use this element something in the implicit wait?

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(something))

does not work.

Thanks very much in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1578

Answers (2)

James Dunn
James Dunn

Reputation: 8274

You can use By.xpath, and use the xpath starts-with function, like so:

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(
    By.xpath("//*[starts-with(@id, 'dynamicID')]")));

The * is a wild character representing any element type. If you know the tag, you can replace it. For example, if it's a div:

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(
    By.xpath("//div[starts-with(@id, 'dynamicID')]")));

Upvotes: 1

Mark Rowlands
Mark Rowlands

Reputation: 5453

You can use a partial match for the id but you have to use either an xpath or css selector.

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.CssSelector("tag[id^='dynamicID']")))

Where tag is the element's tag.

Upvotes: 0

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