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Srinivas
Srinivas

Reputation: 3

Unable to select menu item using xpath [Validates in Xpath checker, but webdriver cannot find it]

I am trying to select a menu item...though xpath validates well in Xpath checker, it does not work from WebDriver ...can someone help?

I get Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//a[contains(text(),'Start Loan Process')]"}

HMTL looks something like this
<div class="bd">
<ul class="first-of-type">
<li id="yui-gen7" class="yuimenuitem first-of-type" groupindex="0" index="0">
<li id="yui-gen8" class="yuimenuitem" groupindex="0" index="1">
<li id="yui-gen9" class="yuimenuitem" groupindex="0" index="2">
<li id="yui-gen10" class="yuimenuitem" groupindex="0" index="3">
<li id="yui-gen11" class="yuimenuitem" groupindex="0" index="4">
<a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="#">Start Loan Process</a>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1411

Answers (2)

Austin
Austin

Reputation: 21

I have had very little luck with using the Text() part of the xpath. I would rather use the .Text (C#) or .getText() (java) method.

This is how i would write this in c#: driver.FindElement(By.Xpath(".//*/a").Text.Contains("Start Loan Process");

The xpath part is of course debateable. It could also be: ".//div/li/a". You can use what you want.

Upvotes: 2

Arek
Arek

Reputation: 2021

On the other hand you can also try to use findElementsBy(By.classname("yuimenuitemlabel")) Get them to list of web elements and then filter it using webelement.getText() method.

Upvotes: 0

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