XPath: Find element by ID when disregarding a certain character

[Kai E. Frøland]

Hi friends,

I am sure a question like this has been answered before, but I couldn't find anything when searching through the existing answer base.

I am generating automated testing scripts for a web application with dynamically generated pages. (based on some configuration sheets) Some of the elements I need to interact with will have IDs that are impossible to know exactly a priori, but they will always be equal up to a certain point - namely the inclusion or not of colon characters.

Concretely, I have element IDs on this form - and I use XPaths to find them;

In one instance I can find the element by the XPath

//*[@id="nav:form:G:0:R:1:C:0:da"]

but in another instance it may be

//*[@id="nav:form:G0:R1:C0:da"]

I know the element IDs will always be the same if you exclude all the colons. Is it possible to write one XPath that will hit either case?

[pranab singh]

Hi Froland,

You can use your xpath by contains.

Eg- //*[contains(@id,'nav:form:G0:')].

Do please try the above 

Thanks

Pranab Chetri

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