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whatsinthename
whatsinthename

Reputation: 2157

How to capture and navigate element under <a> and <span> tag in selenium java

I want to capture element and navigate on the page linked to that element which is is under <a> tag and <span> tag. I tried using selenium IDE but it is not able to capture those elements. So I wrote code in java and referred many links of stackoverflow regarding the same but still I am not able to solve my problem. Below is my java code : 

package com.selenium;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.api.Session;
import org.junit.*;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class FirstTestSelenium {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // declaration and instantiation of objects/variables
        WebDriver driver;

        System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.marionette", "D:\\geckodriver.exe");
        driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        Session session;
        String baseUrl = "";
        String expectedTitle = "QlikView";
        String actualTitle = "";
        // launch Fire fox and direct it to the Base URL
        driver.get(baseUrl);
        actualTitle = driver.getTitle();
        System.out.println(actualTitle);
        if (actualTitle.contentEquals(expectedTitle)) {
            System.out.println("Test Passed!");
        } else {
            System.out.println("Test Failed");
        }
        // driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[text()='Demand
        // Summary']")).getText();
        // close Fire fox
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[normalize-space()='S/D Summary']"));
        ;

        driver.close();

        // exit the program explicitly
        System.exit(0);
    }

}

and below is my UI code : 

<li style="display: list-item;" order="2" rel="DocumentSH07" id="Document\SH07">
    <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" href="javascript:;">
    <span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">Demand Summary</span>
    </a>
    </li>

Please help me to solve my problem since I am new to selenium but trying my best. Its giving NoSuchElementFound Exception.
Thanks !

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1211

Answers (5)

whatsinthename
whatsinthename

Reputation: 2157

Thank you everyone for your valued time and suggestions but I solved it by below code: 

driver.findElement(By.linkText("Demand Summary")).click();

Upvotes: 0

Anuj Teotia
Anuj Teotia

Reputation: 1323

In your code replace this line 

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[normalize-space()='S/D Summary']"));

by

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//li/a/span[text()='Demand Summary']"));

Upvotes: 0

Jsmith2800
Jsmith2800

Reputation: 1113

Using //*[normalize-space()='Demand Summary'] will not work, as this finds multiple elements (The whole body, the list item, the a tag and the span tag), but your java code is looking for a single element. Try //span[normalize-space()='Demand Summary'] instead

Upvotes: 1

JeffC
JeffC

Reputation: 25597

You locator is looking for "Demand Summary"

"//*[normalize-space()='Demand Summary']"

but the HTML you provided shows "S/D Summary"

<span ...>S/D Summary</span>

Change the locator to "//*[.='S/D Summary']" and it should work.

Upvotes: 1

Kenil Fadia
Kenil Fadia

Reputation: 234

Following code snippet should be able to locate the element:

WebElement aTagElement = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;']"));
WebElement spanTagElement = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span[style='font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;']"));

A detailed UI code might help write better and smaller locator.

However you can reduce the selector length by using (for aTagElement and can be extended to the span tag element as well.)

style*='background: rgb(255, 255, 255)' // meaning style contains background color rgb(255, 255, 255)

or

style^='color: rgb(0, 0, 0)' //meaning style starts with color rgb(0, 0, 0)

or

style$='0%;' //meaning style ends with 0%.

Upvotes: 0

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