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Montė Čiuklys
Montė Čiuklys

Reputation: 58

Python Selenium XPATH with multiple tags

I have an automated python script to check for any changes in the DOM. I have a xpath that works:

//td[@class='high-bg']/a[@class='link-action'][@data-hintbox='1'][@data-hintbox-static='1'][@role='button'][@href='javascript:void(0)']

But it gives me more outputs than I need and some of them cause errors. So i want to get the abstract items that i need from an xpath, so I'm trying to use something like this:

//table[@id't5c711109b1eea263276674']/tbody[]/tr[]/td[@class='warning-bg']/a[@class='link-action'][@data-hintbox='1'][@data-hintbox-static='1'][@role='button'][@href='javascript:void(0)']

But it's not working, so is it even possible to search xpath with that many tags?

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<table id="example">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td class="average-bg">
                <a class="link-action" data-hintbox="1" data-hintbox-static="1" role="button"                   href="javascript:void(0)">1</a>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3102

Answers (2)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193048

About your code trials:

  • In your first attempt you have tried to use all the attributes of the element to construct the xpath:

    //td[@class='high-bg']/a[@class='link-action'][@data-hintbox='1'][@data-hintbox-static='1'][@role='button'][@href='javascript:void(0)']

  • Elements with similar attributes can be present but at different position/location. Hence it returns more than desired outputs you need.

  • In your second attempt you have constructed an absolute xpath which is brittle:

    //table[@id't5c711109b1eea263276674']/tbody[]/tr[]/td[@class='warning-bg']/a[@class='link-action'][@data-hintbox='1'][@data-hintbox-static='1'][@role='button'][@href='javascript:void(0)']

Solution

As per the text based HTML you have provided, to identify the desired element you can use either of the following solutions:

  • xpath:

    driver.find_element_by_xpath("//table[@id='example']//td[@class='average-bg']/a[@class='link-action' and text()='1']")

  • css_selector:

    driver.find_element_by_css_selector("table#example td.average-bg>a.link-action")

Upvotes: 3

balderman
balderman

Reputation: 23815

Here it is.

XML

<root>
  <e1 role='a' class='y'></e1>
  <e1 role='a' class='t'></e1>
  <e1 role='a' class='z'></e1>
</root>

XAPTH

//e1[@role='a' and @class='t']

Output

Element='<e1 class="t" role="a"/>'

Upvotes: 0

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