Selenium With dynamic ID

[reshmi aneesh]

Hi Everyone,

I am generating junit test code from selenium IDE. When I am executing selenium code in eclipse , I'm getting the following error: com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleniumException: ERROR: Element //div/span/a not found    at com.thoughtworks.selenium.HttpCommandProcessor.throwAssertionFailureExceptionOrError(HttpCommandProcessor.java:97)     at com.thoughtworks.selenium.HttpCommandProcessor.doCommand(HttpCommandProcessor.java:91)     at com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium.click(DefaultSelenium.java:167)     at com.example.tests.Heartcore_webamin_4.testHeartcore_webamin_4(Heartcore_webamin_4.java:30)     As 'a' tag is having dynamic ID,i generate //div/span/a using cirebug inspect elment and then copying the xpath. After running the code am getting error as its not found...Please help me am stuck at this for last two days. thanks in advance Reshmi

[reshmi aneesh]

Here is my code:

selenium.open("/");
        assertEquals("Login", selenium.getTitle());
        selenium.type("name=username", "admin");
        selenium.type("name=password", "admin");
        selenium.click("name=Login");
        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
        selenium.click("xpath=(//a[contains(@href, '/webadmin/index.content.jsp?menu=content')])[2]");
        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
        selenium.click("//a[contains(@href, '/webadmin/content/index.jsp?contentpackage=+&contentclass=page&contentbundle=%20&contentgroup=%20&contenttype=%20&status=%20&version=%20&menu=content&')]");
        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
        assertEquals("Pages", selenium.getTitle());
        selenium.click("//div/span/a");
        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
        selenium.click("//input[@value='Save & Close']");
        selenium.waitForPopUp("_save", "60000");
        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("60000");
        selenium.click("xpath=(//a[contains(@href, '/webadmin/logout.jsp')])[2]");
        selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");

here for selenium.click("//a[contains(@href, 'admin.jsp?id=41&0.6071347242772881')]"); i change is with XPath as selenium.click("//div/span/a");

thanks in advance Reshmi

[Hari]

try this code by replacing it

selenium.click("//a[contains(@href, 'admin.jsp?id=41&')]");

its not works mean - See this link

http://automationtricks.blogspot.in/2010/05/how-to-identify-dynamic-element-in.html

starts-with

if your dynamic element's ids have the format <button id="continue-12345" /> where 12345 is a dynamic number you could use the following

XPath: //button[starts-with(@id, 'continue-')]  

Regards,

hari

thanks in advance Reshmi

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[reshmi aneesh]

Will someone help me to solve this issue please....

On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 11:41:31 AM UTC+5:30, reshmi aneesh wrote:

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Reshmi,

I believe "Hari" responded with some alternatives. Did you even give it a try ?

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[reshmi aneesh]

Yeah tried still getting error...

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Can you share the html source of the page wherein you are seeing failures when you run :  selenium.click("//div/span/a");  

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[reshmi aneesh]

<tr>
    <td>open</td>
    <td>/webadmin/content/index.jsp?contentpackage=+&amp;contentclass=page&amp;contentbundle=%20&amp;contentgroup=%20&amp;contenttype=%20&amp;status=%20&amp;version=%20&amp;menu=content&amp;</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>clickAndWait</td>
    <td>//a[contains(@href, 'admin.jsp?id=41&amp;0.6071347242772881')]</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>assertTitle</td>
    <td>Update&nbsp;Checkout - 2. Order Details</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>click</td>
    <td>//input[@value='Save &amp; Close']</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>


the code which i make bold is changed as //div/span/a using xpath.

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Reshmi,

I guess I wasn't clear enough with what I asked.

Please share the html source of the actual web page which contains the element that you are having issues with interacting and NOT your IDE html 

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[reshmi aneesh]

webpage html:

<td>
  <div class="ricoLG_col data_grid_header_col4" style="width: 179px;">
  <div class="ricoLG_cell ricoLG_evenRow WCMindex_highlight" id="data_grid_header_0_4">
  <span title="Checkout - 2. Order Details" class="title">
      <a class="title" href="admin.jsp?id=290&amp;0.5409739573043904">Checkout - 2. Order Details</a>
  </span>
</div>
<div class="ricoLG_cell ricoLG_oddRow" id="data_grid_header_1_4">
  <span title="Checkout - 2. Ordre information" class="title">
       <a class="title" href="admin.jsp?id=210&amp;0.4120937476464255">Checkout - 2. Ordre    information</a>     </span>
</div>
</div>
</td>

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Have you tried 

selenium.click("//a[contains(text(),'Checkout - 2. Ordre    information')");

instead of //a[contains(@href, 'admin.jsp?id=41&amp;0.6071347242772881')]

P.S: The spelling of "Order" is incorrect in your webpage :)

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[reshmi aneesh]

Yeah i tried it before...

[anji prassana]

Hope we must specify identifier type as xpath= prior to the xapth in click function.say,

selenium.click("xpath=//a[contains(text(),'Checkout - 2. Ordre    information')]");

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[reshmi aneesh]

no still its not working...its showing xpath not found.

[anji prassana]

try this..

 

selenium.click("xpath=//a[contains(text(),'Checkout')]");

[anji prassana]

try this as well

  selenium.click("xpath=//a[contains(.,'Checkout')]");

[Mark Collin]

Have you checked to see if the website is W3C compliant html?

 

If it’s not there is a good chance that the XPath won’t be found due to a missing closing tag or something similar.

 

Try running the page through this:

 

http://validator.w3.org/

 

If it fails validation get the HTML fixed and then try to automate it again.

[RajSekhar]

did you try to use 

selenium.click("link= Checkout - 2. Ordre    information");

best regards,

Raj sekhar.