[Urgent]How to handle Dynamic Element with ID

[kvvnk ravikumar]

Hi All,

I'm working on web application, there is a button with ID like below:

pt1:USma:0:MAt3:1:pt1:Manag1:1:r:JobDe1:0:dialogForPositionChange::yes 

but the initial part pt1:USma:0 is constant and last part dialogForPositionChange::yes  is constant 

so I tried to use xpath with the method ends-with like below:

//div[ends-with(@id,'dialogForPositionChange::yes')]  But its not returning any value when I check this text in Xpath checker.

Could any one help in this regard..Its bit urgent..

 

[Brijesh Yadav]

Hi

try with below id, I hope it should work.

//input[contains(@id,"_txtSearch")]

//input[contains(@id,"dialogForPositionChange")]

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[kvvnk ravikumar]

Many Thanks Brijesh for your reply.

If I use //input[contains(@id,"dialogForPositionChange")] there are two buttons getting identified, If we can write a pattern matching like  starting with "pt1:USma:0:MAt' and ends with  "dialogForPositionChange" then it should identifies uniquely. 

But when I try to use ends-with its not giving any result.

How to write a regular expression to meet this requirement.

[Brijesh Yadav]

I am not sure about achieving it using regular expression but as you said it has some constant part in id. You can use that constant part.

Like below one.

//input[contains(@id,"dialogForPositionChange::yes")]

Recognize the constant part of object and write it over there.

Identify the unique part (text) of id between two buttons and give it over there.

-----------------------------------Alternate -------------------------------

you can use absolute / relative dom xpath rather than using pattern or other thing in xpath.

for example - html/body/form/button

use firepath to identify the xpath

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[Abhishek Singh]

Hi Ravikumar,

Since two web elements are getting identified because of this Xpath //input[contains(@id,"dialogForPositionChange")]  which you have tried.

Kindly try to use this pattern matching Xpath which checks two conditions

1. Starting with "pt1:USma:0:MAt

2. & Containing  "dialogForPositionChange"

 

Kindly try below Xpath and let me know if this resolves your problem

//input[starts-with(@id,'pt1:USma:0')][contains(@id,'dialogForPositionChange::yes')]

 

Regards,

Abhishek

[Brian Smith]

You can use "//input[contains(@id,'pt1:USma:0') and contains(@id,'dialogForPositionChange::yes')]" as a comparison path checking for the availability of both strings. Using this method the order of the two contains() statements is not important.

[tulsi.tester]

Hi Ravi Kumar,

As most of the browser's support only Xpath 1.0 version instead of Xpath 2.0, your ends-with function doesn't works. Hence you can tweak this using the following code

I am assuming the following html code for a simple input field

<input name='firstname'>

and i am trying to find whether the name attribute ends with name or not

//input['name'=substring(@name,5,8)]

This is return the correspoding web element. You can try the same logic with your code.

On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 2:49:08 PM UTC+5:30, kvvnk ravikumar wrote:

[kvvnk ravikumar]

Many Many Thanks a lot, This Group rocks :-) After lot of research i ended up using below:

//input[contains(@id,'pt1:USma:0') and contains(@id,'dialogForPositionChange::yes')]"

And the same was suggested by Brian and Abhishek.. Special thanks for you :-) 

[İsmail KOÇ]

Hi,
Use contains tag in xpath. Not ends-with

28 Nis 2015 12:19 tarihinde "kvvnk ravikumar" <ravikum...@gmail.com> yazdı:

[Gopa Kishore Mindi]

Hi,

Please try with the below xpaths and let me know if it does not work for you.

//*[contains(@id,'pt1:USma:0:MAt3:')][contains(@id,'dialogForPositionChange::yes')]


//*[contains(@*,'pt1:USma:0:MAt3:')][contains(@*,'dialogForPositionChange::yes')]

Thanks,

Gopa

On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 2:49:08 PM UTC+5:30, kvvnk ravikumar wrote:

[A R K Satyanarayana Raju]

U can use 

(//input[contains(@id,"dialogForPositionChange")])[1] - for first element

(//input[contains(@id,"dialogForPositionChange")])[2] - for second element

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