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Stewart Moon
Stewart Moon

Reputation: 279

Selecting Different Web Elements

I am a Software Quality Assurance Engineer and I am trying to create an Automated test for a webpage.

Some background:

The framework of Selenium that my company uses ONLY allows you to use X paths saved as an object then you use pre-existing methods like "click (someobject)" or "enter (someobject)" etc.

Problem:

I'm currently trying to create a test that selects multiple buttons that are on the same class. There are 6 set buttons that I need to be able to select. Now I can do this but using:

`//*[@id="tenant-details-accordion"]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/a
 //*[@id="tenant-details-accordion"]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/a
 //*[@id="tenant-details-accordion"]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[3]/div/a
 //*[@id="tenant-details-accordion"]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[4]/div/a
 //*[@id="tenant-details-accordion"]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[5]/div/a
 //*[@id="tenant-details-accordion"]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[6]/div/a`

-However this is only temporary because the test will fail later down the road when a button is removed... I have talked to the Development team about adding Unique ID's to each button. But it does not seem like that is a path they want to go down...

Possible Solution:

My thought is that I could create an Xpath that narrows what Selenium will actually be looking through.

  1. Searching for the class

  2. Searching for Text "Birth Date"

  3. Selecting Set Button

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Here is some HTML when I inspect the page HTML CODE

Upvotes: 2

Views: 134

Answers (3)

Mahipal
Mahipal

Reputation: 910

In order to first locate the div with class 'col-sm-4' and text as 'Birth Date:' and then find the link with text 'Set +' under it, any of the following XPATHs can be used:

//div[@class='col-sm-4' and contains(text(),'Birth Date')]/descendant::a[1]

Or

//div[@class='col-sm-4' and contains(text(),'Birth Date')]/descendant::a[contains(text(),'Set +')][1]

Or

//div[@class='col-sm-4' and contains(text(),'Birth Date')]/descendant::a[text()='Set +'][1]

Upvotes: 1

becixb
becixb

Reputation: 373

I believe you've already asked this and we've answered it.

But here are multiple solutions:

  1. //div[@class='col-sm-4' and contains(text(),'Birth Date')]/div/a

  2. //div[contains(@class,'col-sm-4') and contains(text(),'Birth Date']//a

there are many more options. Try and visit w3schools.com to learn more about xpath.

Upvotes: 1

lauda
lauda

Reputation: 4173

You would want something like this:

//div[@class='col-sm-4'][.//*[contains(text(), 'Birth Date')]]//a

Meaning select the link from the div that has a class with value col-sm-4 and contains the specified text.

Or it could also work like this:

//div[contains(text(), 'Birth Date')]/a

Upvotes: 1

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