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Shoaib
Shoaib

Reputation: 88

How to select an unordered list in selenium C# .. Not able to catch

I am trying to find the ul id "mainTimeSheet" and li item weekly report by id = timesheetReport but not getting it. I am new to C# selenium.

Below is the code i am trying in C# :

//var drop = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//ul[@id='mainTimeSheet']"));

var drop = driver.FindElement(By.Id("mainTimeSheet")).
               FindElement(By.XPath(".//li[@id='timesheetReport']"));


drop.Click();

HTML Code:

 <li class="dropdown">
 <a href="javascript:;" data-toggle="collapse" data- 
 target="#mainTimeSheet">
   <i class="fa fa-fw fa-tasks"></i>&nbsp; Time Sheet <span class="fa 
 arrow"></span>
 </a>
  <ul id="mainTimeSheet" class="nav nav-second-level collapse">

    <li>
      <a id="timesheetReport" href="/ShaeetsListsadas.aspx"><i 
 class="fa fa-fw fa-tasks"></i>&nbsp; Weekly Report</a>
     </li>
    <li>
       <a id="submitTimeSheet" href="/SheetsFormsads.aspx"><i 
 class="fa fa-fw fa-tasks"></i>&nbsp; Submit Timesheet</a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a id="timeSheetDetailReport" href="/sheetsReportsasd.aspx"<i 
class="fa fa-fw fa-tasks"> 
 </i>&nbsp; Day Wise Report</a>
    </li>
  </ul>
 </li>

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 183

Answers (1)

cruisepandey
cruisepandey

Reputation: 29362

Please check in the dev tools (Google chrome) if we have unique entry in HTML DOM or not.

Steps to check:

Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL + F -> then paste the xpath and see, if your desired element is getting highlighted with 1/1 matching node.

Xpath to check:

//li//a[@id='timesheetReport']

If it shows 1/1 matching node then

click it like this:

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
IWebElement timeSheet = wait.Until(e => e.FindElement(By.XPath("//ul[@id='mainTimeSheet']")));
timeSheet.Click();

IWebElement weeklyReport= wait.Until(e => e.FindElement(By.XPath("//li//a[@id='timesheetReport']")));
weeklyReport.Click();

Update:

to resolve selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException:

You should debug your code like below:

  1. Make sure the browser is launched in full screen using

    driver.Manage().Window.Maximize();

  2. Use ActionChains:

    Actions actionProvider = new Actions(driver);
actionProvider.MoveToElement(new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)).Until(e => e.FindElement(By.XPath("//ul[@id='mainTimeSheet']")))).Click().Build().Perform();

  3. Use ExecuteScript:

    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
IWebElement timeSheet = wait.Until(e => e.FindElement(By.XPath("//ul[@id='mainTimeSheet']")));
((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver).ExecuteScript("arguments[0].click(); ", timeSheet);

Upvotes: 1

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