starts-with
if your dynamic element's ids have the format <button id="continue-12345" /> where 12345 is a dynamic number you could use the following
XPath: //button[starts-with(@id, 'continue-')]
Sometimes an element gets identfied by a value that could be surrounded by other text, then contains function can be used.
To demonstrate, the element <input class="top suggest business"> can be located based on the ‘suggest’ class without having to couple it with the ‘top’ and ‘business’ classes using the following
XPath: //input[contains(@class, 'suggest')].
Very useful post.
ReplyDeleteActual problem is ,
ReplyDeleteWhen i click Select tag button,xpath value changes like:
1st time i get---->id('fpey_selectTag')
2nd time i get---->id('dmht_selectTag')
3rd time i got------>id('gajx_selectTag')
so on...
I wrote my test case as
selenium.type("gajx_tags", "a,b,c,");
and test failed.Please tell me what should i include in place of
gajx_tags in above line.
Thanks in advance
Hi Farhin,
ReplyDeleteGo through the below blogs you will get info about that .
http://automationtricks.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-identify-dynamic-element-in.html
Can you please send me your html of your elements ?
ReplyDeleteHi Niraj,
ReplyDeleteI have the situation like having multiple radio buttons with the dynamic values like radio_{x} where x is the dynamic values.The value x came from DB.
I used the following selenium command to select the radio button.
selenium.click(starts-with(@id, 'radio-'));
But the problem is every time it selects the first radio button only but i need to select second and third ...etc.
Thanks
Santhosh.
Then you read this post in this condition.
ReplyDeletehttp://automationtricks.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-locate-element-which-have-same.html
F-202222|-2@locationName
ReplyDeleteI want ti Replace 2 with regular expression.
Problem:DropDown List:Selenium-perl
ReplyDeleteIn my application contains one dropdown box,i am unable to identify the dorpdownlist elements based on id.because it's changing every time dynamically.
For ex:1st time:id=uki-list-1234-row-1
2 nd time:id=uki-list-4123-row-1
I have tried in another way to identify the id:
like this..
target://div[starts-with(@id:'uki-list-')]
value :label=regexp:\uki-list-\d+-\row-\d?
but i got the error Locator not found.
Problem:DropDown List:Selenium-perl
ReplyDeleteActually "select" command is used to select the dropdown box. "selectAndWait: for selct the options in drop down box based on label reg.expressons or id's,but in my application select command is not working.there is any other commands for selecting dropdown elements. please tell me.
My dropdown box is devloped by uki java script frame work
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ReplyDeletehi
ReplyDeleteHi i have a situation where in i need to select an item from a drop down list and click on go button which would populate next drop down list.i used select,mouseDown nothing works.my element identifier not locating the element properly
ReplyDeletehello my case is something different here is a button in my case and its value changed every time for example first value was "CommonBucket_'ct102-'_btnHold" and second time value was "CommonBucket_'ct104-'_btnHold"... how can i solve this problem please suggest me a best solution.
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in xpath if input id =1234 & 1234 is dynamic, how to locate an element in selenium?
ReplyDeletethis is exactly what we want
ReplyDeleteHI
ReplyDeleteI have one drop down list element. which dynamically changes every time."//div[9]/div[2]/div[3]/div[3]/select" where "div[3]/select" is constant.
so can i identify that ? do we have ends-with function as like starts with function.
there is some function called as contains similar to start with . you can use it
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ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeletemy $test = $driver->find_element("q" , "name");
by using "$test" i can pass inputs to textbox, but is there any way to get "ID" of textbox using "$test".
Please help
Thank you
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ReplyDeleteHi Niraj
ReplyDeleteI have one doubt, i have one text box whose id keeps chaging below is the HTML Code
input id="contact_type0" class="form-control ng-dirty ng-valid-parse ng-valid ng-valid-required ng-touched" name="contact_type" ng-model="data.contact_type" placeholder="Contact Type" required="" aria-invalid="false" style="" type="text"/
2nd time if i click Add New Button
it gives me
input id="contact_type1" class="form-control ng-dirty ng-valid-parse ng-valid ng-valid-required ng-touched" name="contact_type" ng-model="data.contact_type" placeholder="Contact Type" required="" aria-invalid="false" style="" type="text"
So i have written the xpath="//input[starts-with(@id,'contact_status')]" but works well with first time but 2nd time it fails it always identify the 1st text box, could you please tell how to write the generic xpath which will work and i am looping this code for 1st works well , in the 2nd unable to identify the 2nd text box instead it identify the first one. please help me out.
I need help on same issue.Please let me know any one have soln
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