CODEWITHSUNDEEP
seleniumxpathwebdriver
MP2491
MP2491

Reputation: 1

How to locate elements of table with dynamic ids using findElements?

I have to get the XPATH for dynamic Ids of table. I am trying to get all table ids which have 'sometext' into a list using findElements.

Issue is that they have a similar pattern except for digits in id attribute they vary

<tr>
<td>
<a id="text-132" </a>
</td>
<a id="text-125" </a>
</td>
<td>
<a id="test-122"</a>
</td>

I wrote following code, it doesn't show any error locating xpath but it prints nothing and list size is 0

List<WebElement> my_list = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[starts-with(@id, 'text')]"));
    System.out.println("Size: " + my_list.size());

    for (int i=0; i<my_list.size(); i++) {

        System.out.println(my_list.get(i).getText());

    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 913

Answers (1)

eugene.polschikov
eugene.polschikov

Reputation: 7339

I would prefer (probably a matter of habbit) - alternative- CSS selectors:

Selector: [attribute*=value]

Example: a[href*="w3schools"]

Description: Selects every element whose href attribute value contains the substring "w3schools"

In your projection: 

List<WebElement> myList=driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("a[id*=\"text\"]"));

System.out.println("Size: " + myList.size());

Hope this helps you.

Upvotes: 1

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