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Banjaxx
Banjaxx

Reputation: 644

webdriver (c#) - Assert text from a specific UL tagname

I'm trying to assert that specific UL tags within my webpage contain certain text. I'm not sure how to get for example, the third UL tag within a class and then assert it's text. Here is an example of the HTML code from my webpage:

<td class="def"><ul>
<li>1 -- test 1</li>
<li>2 -- test 2</li>
<li>3 -- test 3</li>
<li>4 -- test four</li>
</ul></td>

I'm taking a different (and likely naive) approach to get this working but it's not really ideal for me - and I'm only doing it this way because I'm not sure how to get it working the way I would like. I'm asserting that the length of text from the outer html of the "def" class contains a specific count:

(from memory)

String Def = utility.driver.findelement(By.ClassName("def").GetAttribute.("outerHTML");
int Length = Def.Length;
Assert.IsTrue(Length.equals("36"));

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1890

Answers (1)

Arran
Arran

Reputation: 25076

You can either directly find that element using an XPath selector that matches on text (example selector below, not tested):

//td[contains(@class, 'def')]//ul/li[text()='4 -- test four')]

(find me a td that contains a class of def, get the ul underneath it, and get the li underneath that which also has a text of 4 -- test four)

You can also harness the power of LINQ in C# to do some leg work for you. The thing you are missing is finding child elements of a given element. This is done by chaining .FindElement commands:

Driver.FindElement(By.ClassName("def")).FindElement(By.TagName("ul"));

The above would get the first ul element that is a direct child of the td element in your example. WebDriver will be able to figure out the child & parent relationships for you.

So to put this into your situation a bit better, here's how you would do it.

Driver.FindElement(By.ClassName("def"));

Get the table we want.

Driver.FindElement(By.ClassName("def")).FindElement(By.TagName("ul"));

Get the ul we want that's a direct child of that table.

Driver.FindElement(By.ClassName("def")).FindElement(By.TagName("ul")).FindElements(By.TagName("li"));

Get the li elements of that ul. Note the FindElements (extra s!)

Driver.FindElement(By.ClassName("def")).FindElement(By.TagName("ul")).FindElements(By.TagName("li")).First(i => i.Text.Equals("4 -- test four"));

Since it's an IList that returns, LINQ can then take it and return the first one that has a .Text property equal to what you need.

Upvotes: 1

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