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waghso
waghso

Reputation: 595

XPath for relative element in table

I'm using Java Selenium to open links based on the title as input. I have following part of HTML in which Top 5 Item Exception Types is title I need to find and its hyperlink <a class="CatalogActionLink" href="javascript:void(null)">Open</a> is in another <tr><td><span> tag next to its sibling<tr><td><span> tag. How can I find element Open hyperlink by searching title Top 5 Item Exception Types?

<table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td class="CatalogObjectListItemIcon" rowspan="2"><img src="/analytics/res/sk_blafp/catalog/obj_request_b.png" alt="Analysis" title="Analysis"></td>
            <td><span class="CatalogObjectListItemTitle">Top 5 Item Exception Types</span>
                <span class="CatalogObjectListItemLastModifiedTime">Last Modified 2/15/2018 12:39:45 PM</span>
                <span class="CatalogObjectListItemOwner">Owner System Account</span>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
                    <tbody>
                        <tr>
                            <td><a class="CatalogActionLink" href="javascript:void(null)">Open</a></td>
                            <td><span class="CatalogActionLinkSeparator">&nbsp;</span>
                            </td>
                            <td><a class="CatalogActionLink" href="javascript:void(null)">Edit</a></td>
                            <td><span class="CatalogActionLinkSeparator">&nbsp;</span>
                            </td>
                            <td><a class="CatalogActionLink" href="javascript:void(null)" title="Click to see more actions of Top 5 Item Exception Types">More<img border="0" src="/analytics/res/s_FusionFX/uicomponents/obips.UberBar/dropdown_n.png" alt="Dropdown menu">
                            </a></td>
                        </tr>
                    </tbody>
                </table>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

I can find title using following

WebElement reportElement = driver.findElement(
                    By.xpath("//span[contains(translate(text(), 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'),'"
                            + reportName.toLowerCase() + "')]"));

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1312

Answers (5)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193088

To identify the WebElement with text e.g. Open, Edit or More, with respect to the WebElement with text as Top 5 Item Exception Types you can write a function which will accept the reference text i.e. Top 5 Item Exception Types and the desired action (i.e either Open, Edit or More) as an input argument and locate the relevant WebElement as follows:

public void clickOperation(String title, String operation)
{
    WebElement opsLink = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//td/span[.='" + title + "']//following::tr[1]/td/table/tbody/tr//td/a[@class='CatalogActionLink'][.='" + operation + "']"));
}

You can call the function clickOperation() along with reference text i.e. Top 5 Item Exception Types and the required operation as a String an arguments from anywhere within your script to identify the relevant Link WebElement of the respective Top 5 Item Exception Types item as follows :

clickOperation("Top 5 Item Exception Types","Open")
// or
clickOperation("Top 5 Item Exception Types","Edit")
// or
clickOperation("Top 5 Item Exception Types","More")

Upvotes: 1

Symph
Symph

Reputation: 36

You could try this xpath, it finds your text and then gets back for a few levels, then searches again for specific 'a' element.

//td/span[contains(text(),'Top 5 Item Exception Types')]/../../..//td/a[text()='Open']

Upvotes: 0

Andersson
Andersson

Reputation: 52665

Both @Grasshopper and @cruisepandey answers are good (+1). This is just a little shorter version for the same:

//tr[.//span='Top 5 Item Exception Types']/following-sibling::tr//a[.='Open']

Upvotes: 2

cruisepandey
cruisepandey

Reputation: 29362

try this : 

//span[text()='Top 5 Item Exception Types']/ancestor::tr/following-sibling::tr/descendant::a[text()='Open']

Upvotes: 2

Grasshopper
Grasshopper

Reputation: 9058

Try this xpath -- "//span[.='Top 5 Item Exception Types']//ancestor::tr/following-sibling::tr//a[.='Open']"

Upvotes: 2

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