CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonseleniumxpathwebdriver
Arjun Munirathinam
Arjun Munirathinam

Reputation: 17

use of If function in selenium python

Below is the HTML where i would like to do an if check for 'test', if exists I want to click on rtPlus

</div></li><li class="rtLI rtLast"><div class="rtBot rtSelected TreeNodeSelect sonetto-children">
                                <span class="rtSp"></span><span class="rtPlus"></span><span class="rtIn TreeNode sonetto-children">test</span>

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my code

ul = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='ctl00_ctl00_ContentPlaceHolderContent_MainCategoriserContent_Results1_ResultsTree1_radTree']/ul//ul")
ul = ul.find_element_by_xpath("./li[./div/span[text()='{}']]/ul//li[./div/span[text()='{}']]".format(levels[0],levels[1]))
if ul.text == 'test':
    ul = ul.find_element_by_xpath("//span[@class='rtPlus']").click()

Hope this info is enough please leet me know what can be done here to click on the plus icon

Upvotes: 1

Views: 48

Answers (3)

KunduK
KunduK

Reputation: 33384

You can use either of the xpath to accomplished your task.

Find span tag with text as test and then use previous-sibling.

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[text()='test']/preceding-sibling::span[@class='rtPlus']").click()

Or Find li tag whose child tag text as test and find the next child.

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//li[.//span[text()='test']]//span[@class='rtPlus']").click()

If you know the ul tag it is the same approach.

ul.find_element_by_xpath(".//span[text()='test']/preceding-sibling::span[@class='rtPlus']").click()

or

ul.find_element_by_xpath(".//li[.//span[text()='test']]//span[@class='rtPlus']").click()

Upvotes: 2

Code-Apprentice
Code-Apprentice

Reputation: 83527

when i run my code it opens the first plus sign on the page but I want it to open the plus sign next to test

It sounds like you are clicking on a different plus sign than the one you want. You need to write a more sophisticated algorithm to find the correct element to click on. My suggestion is something like this:

get the <ul> element
get all <li> elements inside the <ul>
for each <li>
    if it has "test" in the text
        click on it

So you need to learn how to get all of the elements that match a given css selector. Then you need to learn how to loop over those elements.

Upvotes: 2

vitaliis
vitaliis

Reputation: 4212

The primitive version of what you should do is:

ul = driver.find_element_by_xpath("text locator")
button = ul.find_element_by_xpath("button locator")
if ul.text == 'test':
    button.click()

It's for the case if this button located inside your ul element.

Upvotes: 0

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