Find Element by Attribute

[dont waste your life]

Hello all,

I'm examining the possibility of moving my automated test scripts to
run off of Selenium. I was doing some digging, but might get a
quicker answer here:

Is it possible to have selenium find an element by any attribute
without xpath?

Such as.. lets say I have an input field:

<input ref="address1" id=6_203050302034_5" />

Is there any way to have it find the input field by specifically
telling selenium to look for the attribute "ref" where it matches
"address1".. and for multiple matches to be able to index the matches?

Thanks!

[David T]

Don't waste your life,

Selenium can find an element by numerous different "locators"

This is implemented in different ways depending if you are using the
IDE: http://seleniumhq.org/docs/02_selenium_ide.html#locating-elements
Or a Core API: http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/1.0/reference.html#locators

I realize documentation doesn't seem the easiest to find but it is
there in one form or another.

David Troyer

On Feb 28, 10:36 pm, dont waste your life <nathand...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[yuuzhantar]

webDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@ref='address1']"))

[Jayakumar C]

@Don't waste your life,

 

Is there any specific reason for not using xpath ?,

 

I hope, this will do the trick for your case.Here you can increment the index to get the successive matching elements. 

xpath=(//*[@ref='address1'])[0]

 

 

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[Mark Collin]

It won’t.

 

When you use the [1] notation you are specifically looking for something that is the first child of the parent element.  You may have 10 1^st childs, but you will only interact with the first one because selenium will find the first match and run with it.

 

If you use [0] you will never find anything because there are no 0 childs.

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[gBurgur]

And if you are not comfortable with xpath checkout “XPath Checker”.  It will supply you with an xpath expression.

 

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@Don't waste your life,

[Jayakumar C]

@Mark Collin,

Thats my bad , the index should start from 1.

But your explanation is valid,if the xpath  is   //*[@ref='address1'][1]

and not xpath=(//*[@ref='address1'])[1]

 

Pls check these links,

http://groups.google.com/group/selenium-users/msg/763bd2876ca20d18

http://blog.browsermob.com/2010/09/effectively-using-seleniums-getxpathcount-function/

[Ambika Rajagopalan]

I am facing Element Not found error in IDE. I am trying to select an item from the dropdown using the Select command after the login page. I am not sure how to fix this. Need help

I see that the element not found error comes before the page is completely loaded, which means I tried to use Selectandwait command as well still the test case fails

[gBurgur]

I the dropdown a special type?  i.e.  jQuery

[DarthOpto]

If you have the id why not just use driver.findElement(By.id(6_20305032034_5) ?

[jeevan]

sure.....you can use like :

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[ref=address1]"))

Webdriver can get the attribute of the tag also:

driver.findElement(By.id("test")).getAttribute("ref")

Thanks,

Jeevan

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