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AlmightyJoygasm
AlmightyJoygasm

Reputation: 69

XPath to locate a link within a table

I have a table as follows:

<tr class="ng-scope" ng-repeat="client in clients">
<td class="text-left ng-binding">Apu Nahasapeemapetilon</td>
<td class="text-left ng-binding">AN</td>
<td class="text-left">
<span class="ng-scope" ng-repeat="group in client.SecurityGroups">
<a class="label label-info ng-binding" href="#/SecurityGroup/MemberClients/a1cbf118-2c40-4ae7-a9f8-136bec945849/Assistants"> Assistants </a>
<span class="ng-scope" ng-repeat="group in client.SecurityGroups">
<a class="label label-info ng-binding" href="#/SecurityGroup/MemberClients/e4bd1580-3997-4f3d-a975-189e1fdccb4c/Managers"> Managers </a>

I am trying to locate on a link in the third cell. There can be muliple links in this cell. Ideally I want to identify the row by locating on cells 1 or 2.

So the idea given the table data above is: Find row with client code AN (in cell 2), then find the link 'Assistants' on that row (in cell 3).

I have a similar table on my project and the following XPpath will do what im aiming for on that table:

//tr[.//td='AN'] // a[.='Managers']

but it doesnt seem to work on the table above...

If I do:

//tr[.//td='AN'] // a

It will highlight all the links in the cell (i.e links ending Assistants and Managers), for the row containg 'AN', but I just cant seem to get it to locate on an individual link.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2539

Answers (1)

Joel M. Lamsen
Joel M. Lamsen

Reputation: 7173

try the following xpath

//tr/td[.='AN']/following-sibling::td[1]//a[contains(@href, 'Assistants')]

the xpath looks for a tr with a child td having a value of 'AN'. Then looks at the first following-sibling td then looks for a descendant a which has an href value that contains 'Assistants'

Upvotes: 1

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