I'm currently learning Selenium by building a test framework up to test Trello - for no good reason other than it's free and reasonably complex.
The problem I have right now is that, I want to check if a card is in a certain column or not.
I have the card & column as WebElements so what I'm doing right now is:
column.FindElements(By.LinkText(_card.Text)).Count > 0;
But this doesn't work if there's no text and seems pretty brittle.
What I want is something like:
column.Contains(_card)
I've searched on SO but I've only seen solutions which pass an XPath - I don't have an XPath, I have the WebElement.
Any ideas?
Two things,
relative xpath is fairly easy to learn and could probably take care of this for you.
CSS selectors should also easily identify the container regardless of the text. Without seeing the code, I can't help much more.
You should be able to find all elements with a certain css tag.
Using Firefox with the Firebug extension, right click your element and go to Inspect Element with Firebug. Then, when the html of your element comes up in the window, right click the element and select Copy XPath. Now you have an XPath to use.
To use the CSS Selectors that others are talking about, you can select Copy CSS Path instead of Copy XPath.
Hope this helps.
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Here's the code, I am trying to locate the first email input box.
But I can't locate using the code below.
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://www.nike.com/register");
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("/html/body/div[2]/div[3]/div[4]/form/div[1]/input"));
I've found the solution to this.
In chrome, when you are trying to inspect the elements of the page, the XPath you copied from the element is based on the first indicator. In this example, it is Id.
So I tried to use the Full XPath to locate the input box and it apparently doesn't work with C# selenium. (There could be other ways around this.)
(I used to write selenium with python and it does work when you are using Full XPath.)
In this case, I ended up solving the problem by using the second indicator of the XPath. (type = "email") Just make sure it is unique to the element you are trying to locate you should be fine.
I am trying to automate a web application developed using angular JS through selenium webdriver(C#) and in that i am trying to click on a cell in a angular UI grid, i tried finding by css selector or xpath but it didn't help.
Css selector is generating dynamic ID - #\31 460691734316-0-uiGrid-00KQ-cell > div
Xpath is also dynamic //*[#id="1460691734316-0-uiGrid-00KQ-cell"]/div
and i tried using
driver.FindElements(By.CssSelector("*[id^='1460'][id$='cell']"));
but it didn't help
any help will be highly appreciated. I can send more details if needed
For my particular problem with the HTML page containing iframes and developed with AnglularJS the following trick saved me a lot of time: In the DOM I clearly saw that there is an iframe which wraps all the content. So following code supposed to work:
driver.switchTo().frame(0);
waitUntilVisibleByXPath("//h2[contains(text(), 'Creative chooser')]");
But it was not working and told me something like "Cannot switch to frame. Window was closed". Then I modified the code to:
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
driver.switchTo().frame(0);
waitUntilVisibleByXPath("//h2[contains(text(), 'Creative chooser')]");
After this everything went smoothly. So evidently Angular was mangling something with iframes and just after loading the page when you expect that driver is focused on default content it was focused by some already removed by Angular frame. Hope this may help some of you.
What about trying to find the element with Selenium IDE which is a plugin of firefox ?
In the IDE, you can easily find the selector using selecting the element with GUI
Rather than identifying the element specifically by its ID, could you use the elements around it instead? Is this cell within a table and at a consistent position? Is there a parent element you could more consistently select and iterate through the children in your C# program to identify the appropriate cell you're looking for?
I have some C# code which will verify the heading text on a web page, currently located via xpath as follows.
Assert.AreEqual("Permissions", driver.FindElement(By.XPath(".//*[#id='navigation']/li[6]/h3")).Text);
This, as I understand, will check the text found at the end of the XPath matches the word "Permissions".
The above currently works but I would rather use CSS locators. I hear its best not to use XPath if possible.
I'm new to website testing so am not yet familiar with all this, any help will be much appreciated.
Let me know if there is more you require than what is provided above or if you have any alternate suggestions to the method already used.
I may not fully understand what you are trying to do but since this has no answer after 7 hours i though i might at least mention that if you are trying to get the innerhtml of the header you can use Agile Html http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/ its very easy to use. Might not be what you are looking for though.
So I've been working learning how to use Selenium in C# to do some automated testing for a project. However, I've hit a roadblock on this one. I have been trying to figure out of way to click the following link on this webpage.
Here is what I'm trying to target:
<A class='PortalLink' HREF="https://mywebsite.com/myprograms/launchprogram.jsp?" onClick="setUser('login','password');"><span>MyProgram</span></A>
Searching by ClassName hasn't turned up anything. Although there are multiples, I just wanted to see if I could detect the presence of them.
By.ClassName("PortalLink")
I tried a href based search using CssSelector, but this failed as well.
By.CssSelector("[href*='https://mywebsite.com/myprograms/launchprogram.jsp?']")
Lastly, I tried to use XPath and search by class and span content, but this failed to find the link as well.
By.XPath("//A[contains(#class,'PortalLink') and span[text()='MyProgram']]")))
The webpage in question contains 2 frames which I've tried both.
I'm waiting 200 seconds before timing out. What am I doing incorrectly? Thanks in advance for any help!
Assuming that this element is not appended to the DOM during ajax, your statement should be
By.CssSelector("a.PortalLink[href*='launchprogram.jsp']")
If there are multiple of these links, then we'll need to go further up in the parent-child hierarchy since this link has no more attributes that make this link unique.
If you can post the parent html of this link then we can suggest more options,
Can you try these......
//span[contains(text(),'MyProgram']
//span[contains(text(),'MyProgram']/../
I am performing actions on the page during WatiN tests. What is the neatest method for asserting certain elements are where they should be by evaluating the HTML source? I am scraping the source but looking for a clean way to navigate the tags pulled back.
UPDATE: Right now I am thinking about grabbing certain elements within HTML source using regular expressions and then analysing that to see if other elements exist within. Other thoughts appreciated.
IE.ContainsText("myText") is not enough for your scenario?
I would use XPath to navigate tags in HTML without using regexps.