Xpath cannot select an element

[robocop]

Hi,

 

I am trying to select an element <font face="MS Sans Serif,Arial,Helvetica" color="blue" size="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;Ireland&nbsp;&nbsp;</font>

below is the html snippet and the xpath code

 

<td valign="bottom" nowrap="">
<img border="0" width="38" hspace="0" height="24" align="LEFT" alt="" src="images/cwt_rd.gif">
<table cols="1" cellspacing="0" border="0" height="3" cellpading="0" rows="1">
<a onclick="Exp(1); return false;" href="#">
<a onclick="GetEmp(1,true); return false;" href="#">
<table class="deptsel" cols="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#0D9B9B" width="1" height="21" rows="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td nowrap="">
<a name="node1"></a>
<a class="PLAIN" onclick="Sel(1); return false;" href="#">
<font face="MS Sans Serif,Arial,Helvetica" color="white" size="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;Ireland&nbsp;&nbsp;</font>

 

xpath=//a[@name="node1"]//font

 

However I can get a far as xpath=//a[@name="node1"] but not to the font face tag. Can you help?

 

thanks

[Mike Riley]

If you have a name property use it directly instead of XPath. It is
both faster (in execution speed) and easier (to enter) to say
"name=node1".

For selecting the font tag I am not sure how well that will work, but
you only want to use // at the start, not in the middle (AFAIK).

So try this: //a[@name="node1"]/font

Mike

[Jayaraman - Inspired to become Software Architect]

Could you plz try with this xpath //a[@class='PLAIN']/font.

-Jay!!

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[robocop]

thanks guys

below worked but another snag works in FIREFOX but not IE 9.0
The line that fails is the assert for some reason-see code below



    @Test //select group
    public void testFileMnu() throws Exception {
        //testLogIn();
        selenium.click("css=ul.jd_menu> li");
        selenium.click("link=Select Group");
        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("90000");
        selenium.click("xpath=//a[@class='PLAIN']//font[contains(.,'Applegreen')]");
        Thread.sleep(6000);
        assertTrue(selenium.isElementPresent("xpath=//a[@class='PLAIN']//font[contains(.,'Applegreen') and @color='white']")); //selected
        //assertTrue(selenium.isElementPresent("xpath=//a[@class='PLAIN']//font[contains(.,'Applegreen')]")); //selected
        //xpath=//a[@class='PLAIN']//font[contains(.,'Applegreen') and @color='white']
        selenium.click("name=TB0");
        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("90000");

-Jay!!

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[Hien Ngo]

Yes, your code looks correct. If that element is present the statement will return true, and throw an exception.

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[Mark Collin]

Is the DOM rendered in the same way in IE and FF?

-Jay!!

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[robocop]

Hi,

I do not understand this to be honest. If the element is present it return the correct value of true, so why does it throw an exceptions?

thanks

[robocop]

Hi,

I am a newbie so would not know how to begin to answer that questions? Any pointers.
Is there any way to check that the xpath expression in IE like you can do in firefox using firefinder etc so maybe I could tweak it for IE?

thanks

-Jay!!

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[Mark Collin]

Generally you need to learn about the DOM and XPath properly:

 

·         http://www.w3.org/DOM/

·         http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/

 

There are probably tools for IE that take XPath’s and see if they are valid, Google for them (I don’t use them personally so don’t know of any good ones).  The IE Dev toolbar should enable you to work out some absolute XPath’s which is good as a starter.

 

Unfortunatly the best way to understand XPath and the DOM is to read and understand the specs above (That’s how I did it).

 

From: seleniu...@googlegroups.com [mailto:seleniu...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of robocop
Sent: 03 April 2012 17:31
To: seleniu...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [selenium-users] Xpath cannot select an element

 

Hi,

I am a newbie so would not know how to begin to answer that questions? Any pointers.
Is there any way to check that the xpath expression in IE like you can do in firefox using firefinder etc so maybe I could tweak it for IE?

thanks

On Monday, April 2, 2012 9:15:00 PM UTC+1, Mark Collin wrote:

Is the DOM rendered in the same way in IE and FF?

 

-Jay!!

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[robocop]

Thanks

 

I am familar with both but not sure how I would go about answering your questions?

-Jay!!

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[Hien Ngo]

I have a question about the Thread.Sleep(6000); why do you need that 6 secs sleep, and what happens at that point?

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[robocop]

Hi,

 

just to give the page some time to load, why?

 

thanks

[Mark Collin]

Then use:

 

selenium.waitForPageToLoad("6000");

 

Never use Thread.sleep it’s putting a hard coded 6 second wait in your test for no reason and is pointless/unhelpful and the wrong way to do things.

 

From: seleniu...@googlegroups.com [mailto:seleniu...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of robocop
Sent: 05 April 2012 08:54
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Subject: Re: [selenium-users] Xpath cannot select an element

 

Hi,

 

just to give the page some time to load, why?

-Jay!!

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[Hien Ngo]

The 6 sec sleep makes your test fail intermittently

for the page loading time may be longer on some days when the network/hardware are slower, or underload.

[robocop]

Hi Mark/Lerry


I agree it is pointless alright. I will give this a go and see how I get on. Have a good Easter and thanks for your help on this. No doubt I will be asking more questions :-)

thanks

-Jay!!

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