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Riaz Ladhani
Riaz Ladhani

Reputation: 4062

Selenium Python XPATH Can i print the value of an html tag id attribute to the console

I have an HTML with a div tag which has an ID attribute. The ID value is dynamic. I have managed to build an XPATH to locate the ID attribute and get's it's value into a variable. Can i print out the value to the console? I want to know what value the variable has got.

I tried to print the value the following but i get errors: I tried:

print id.text
print id.get_attribute("id")

The errors are:

AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'get_attribute'

AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'text'

The Selenium Python code is:

element = self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[starts-with(@id,"operations_add_process_list_task")]//span//button')
    id = element.get_attribute("id")
    print id.text

The XPATH is:

(By.XPATH, '//*[starts-with(@id,"operations_add_process_list_task")]//span//button')

The HTML is:

<div id="operations_add_process_list_task_2">
    <span/>
<span>
<span class="myinlineblock" title="Clean"
      style="white-space:nowrap;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;empty-cells:show;">
<select tabindex="-1">
</span>
</span>
<span>
<span class="" title="Turn group off or on." style="">
<input type="checkbox" checked="" tabindex="-1"/>
</span>
</span>
<span>
<button class="gwt-Button" title="Add the tasks to the selected group." style="display:block;" type="button">Add tasks
</button>
</span>
</div>

Once I know what the value is I can then use the ID for the next locator e.g.

select = Select(WebDriverWait(self.driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//div[@id="%s"]/span[2]//select' % id))))

Thanks, Riaz

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2339

Answers (1)

har07
har07

Reputation: 89295

Alternatively, you can change the XPath to be as shown below to return the element with id that also contains the button element :

//*[starts-with(@id,"operations_add_process_list_task")][.//span//button]

Or you might want to use child axes instead of // if the span is direct child of the element with the target id, because the former will be slightly more efficient :

//*[starts-with(@id,"operations_add_process_list_task")][span/button]

Upvotes: 1

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