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Hugo

Reputation: 323

findElement by class where content equals text

I'm trying to locate and click an element on my page but can't use the by.id method as the id's are generated and change per session. For most elements I can get around this by using xpath but there is a dropdown menu where this does not work. I can click the element containing the dropdown and it shows me the options. If I locate the element I need and copy it's xpath the test case won't function stating it can't find the xpath. Now next to the id the Element I'm trying to click also has a class. Problem is that this class is not unique, all menu items in the dropdown have the same class with a different text. What I would like to do is something like:

driver.findeElement(By.class("x-menu-item-text").equals("Unique text 1here").click()

The class "x-menu-item-text" is not unique but the text in this particular class is. I can't use the ID as this is automatically generated. The full code for the item or element I want to click is:

<a id="ext-comp-1035" class="x-menu-item" hidefocus="true" unselectable="on" href="#"><span id="ext-gen250" class="x-menu-item-text">Unique text 1 here</span></a>
<a id="ext-comp-1035" class="x-menu-item" hidefocus="true" unselectable="on" href="#"><span id="ext-gen250" class="x-menu-item-text">Unique text 2 here</span></a>

I'm using Selenium Webdriver with Eclipse (Java).

Allthough the answer provided seems to work on most pages and locations, there is a situation however where I can't get it to work. Can anyone advise? There is a page with buttons and I want to click one of these buttons. If I use the following statement:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@class=' x-btn-text' and text()='Add']")).click();

I get an error message 

org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with

If I look at the source I see:

<button class=" x-btn-text" id="ext-gen539" type="button">Add</button>

So the element is present and visible. I've tried adding a wait.until statement before the click statement but this does not work either:

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//*[@class=' x-btn-text' and text()='Toevoegen']")));
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@class=' x-btn-text' and text()='Toevoegen']")).click();

Extra information: could this problem be because I'm looking for an element that is located in a popup?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2008

Answers (1)

Vovka
Vovka

Reputation: 599

You can use xpath locator https://newcircle.com/bookshelf/selenium_tutorial/locators

By.xpath("//span[@class='x-menu-item-text' and text()='Unique text 1here']")

Upvotes: 2

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