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Satyendra Sharma
Satyendra Sharma

Reputation: 1516

How to uniquely identify elements with selenium for below Expedia site example

Lets say I go to - https://www.expedia.co.uk/ I go to Trains Tab and do a search for any date with 1 passenger selected.

You'll be on next page where to select trains from a list, now if I want to click on any ShowFares button its not being recognized uniquely by CSS= .btn-secondary.btn-action (its returning more than one matching node. So couldn't use it.

while using xpath - 

.//*[@id='ember968']/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div/button

I see its recording @id with some emberxxx which again is not unique as its getting changed for every other search list..

Similarly when I clicked on ShowFare then unable to pick a train or fare as same above problem occurring as CSS is returning several nodes and xpath has this emberxxx which is not unique.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 681

Answers (3)

Krishna Barri
Krishna Barri

Reputation: 1073

As with the same attributes, we have more than one element we are not able to pick right one. I tried with jquery selector .btn-secondary.btn-action:eq(1) and it is working. By using above selector you will pick first Show Fares button every time Let me know if you have any queries.

CSS Selector: .flex-1up.flex-listing.flex-theme-light li:nth-child(1) button

Upvotes: 1

Rajesh
Rajesh

Reputation: 31

I see there are lot other elements having same xpath. Here is my suggestion if you want to click on first element. //button[@class='btn-secondary btn-action']/span - push that to list, loop through list and use getText(). If matches 'Show Fares', click on that.

List<WebElement> buttonList = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//button[@class='btn-secondary btn-action']/span"));

for(int i=0; i<=buttonList.size() ; i++){ 
  WebElement ele = buttonList.get(i);
    if(ele.getText().contains("Show Fares"){
        ele.click();
      }

}

Upvotes: 0

PrinceOFF
PrinceOFF

Reputation: 95

Use, for example, xpath-function starts-with:

(//*[starts-with(@id, 'ember')])[2]

This function find part of name. And then you can use filtr by [] to find needed element by index.

Upvotes: 1

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