Selenium ... lost in Xpath

[Alexander Schwan]

Hi Guys,

I have an issue im seriously struggeling with. I want to select an element via Xpath which looks like this:

<div class="u8-contextmenu-item u8-contextmenu-parentitem-selection" id="n29" data-helptext="Companies" data-helpuri="help://dom" style="display: block;"><div class="u8-contextmenu-item-image" style="width: 16px;" data-size="s"><span class="img u8-img-infoarea-fi-s"></span></div><div class="u8-contextmenu-popup-image"><span class="img u8-img-arrow-r-xs"></span></div><div class="u8-contextmenu-item-text">Companies</div></div>

Be aware, that id="n29" is dynamically generated, so I cant rely on the ID. Anyway, if randomly the ID in the code matches the generated ID, the following selection works:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"n29\"]")).click();

what also works, is when i make the path absolute in chrome via

$('*').removeAttr('id')

driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[4]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div/div/div[1]")).click(); <-- this one works too

So, I checked out a bunch of other selections to make the process more stable, e.g.

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class=\"u8-contextmenu-item u8-contextmenu-parentitem-selection\" and @data-helptext=\"Companies\"]"));

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='u8-contextmenu-item u8-contextmenu-parentitem-selection' and @data-helptext='Companies']"));

all those xpaths works in chrome development tool if I search for them but they are not working in seleium, the error message is always:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//div[@class="u8-contextmenu-item u8-contextmenu-parentitem-selection" and @data-helptext="Companies"]"}

  (Session info: chrome=65.0.3325.181)

Do you guys have any clue what might cause the issue?

Thanks,

Alex

[Santhu]

Try with xpath "//div[contains (text (),'Companies')]".

Also, check if the element is inside an iframe or page is taking some time to load.

Regards,

Santhosh

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[Alexander Schwan]

Hi,

thanks for your response. It does not work :/

I dont understand why it works if the ID matches randomly with the one in the code and this one works:  /html/body/div[4]/div[3]/div[2]/div/div/div/div[1] while none of the other solutions work?

Can an iFrame or PageLoad issue then really be the issue?

Regards,

Alex

[Erich Siffert]

Hi Alex

yes of course!
If the element you want to fetch is loaded within another iframe / frame you will have to switch over with

driver.switchTo().frame(...)

...if it is really the case that the element you want to retrive is in another frame, this would explain the NoSuchElement exception as well...

another possibility:
if you have an xPath like:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='u8-contextmenu-item u8-contextmenu-parentitem-selection' and @data-helptext='Companies']"));

check what the HTML SOURCE really looks like the xPath clause.
Especially "class" attributes might be displayed differently from browser tools (order of CSS, additional blanks/more or less blanks etc.)
It might be that "class='u8-contextmenu-item u8-contextmenu-parentitem-selection'" is not what it appears to be, it might be:
"class='  u8-contextmenu-parentitem-selection     u8-contextmenu-item   '" or whatever...

eventually this works better (well, not performance-wise):
//div[contains(@class, 'u8-contextmenu-item') and contains(@class, 'u8-contextmenu-parentitem-selection']

cheers
Erich

[Yogesh Khachane]

Hi Alex,

You can use below xpath

//div[text()='Companies']//preceding::div[@data-helptext='Companies'][1]

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[Mohanraj K]

Hi..,

I think ur class is hidden u not able to perform Operations over these div..i need to know full scenario for help u out..

Style=display:block

If u search some word but the word not matches so it act as hidden one..plz let me know the full scenario..

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 5:07 AM Mohanraj K <mohanraj....@chainsys.com> wrote:

driver.findelement(By.xpath(".//*(text()='Companies')")

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 4:59 AM Mohanraj K <mohanraj....@chainsys.com> wrote:

Hey bro ur class called on many places means it wont works.

Just use this 

diver.findelement(By.xpath(".//*(text()='Companies'))

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[subha a]

XPath is defined as XML path. It is a syntax or language for finding any element on the web page using XML path expression. XPath is used to find the location of any element on a webpage using HTML DOM structure. The basic format of XPath is explained below with screen shot.

Syntax for XPath:

XPath contains the path of the element situated at the web page. Standard syntax for creating XPath is. 

Types of X-path

1) Absolute XPath .

2) Relative XPath .

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