unable to locate an element using xpath

[poornima...@gmail.com]

Hello all,

I am a beginner in selenium.Trying to run the below code in selenium 3.0.1 and firefox 51.0.1(64 bit)

I Am not able to locate the "My Account" link and also receiving a 

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

//Objects and variable declaration

//if you didn't update the Path system variable to add the full directory path to the executable as above mentioned then doing this directly through code

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:/Users/syama/Desktop/Selenium/geckodriver-v0.13.0-win64/geckodriver.exe");

//Now you can Initialize marionette driver to launch firefox

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();

capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);

//@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")

WebDriver driver = new MarionetteDriver(capabilities); 

//WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

String appUrl = "http://phptravels.com/demo/";

//Launch the firefox browser

driver.get(appUrl);

//maximize the browser

driver.manage().window().maximize();

//functionality 

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@class='btn btn-primary btn-lg btn-block']//*[text()='http://www.phptravels.net']")).click();

System.out.println("Clicked on the homepage-front end button in the home page");

//wait

driver.manage().timeouts();

//select value from drop down

    Select dropList = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(.,'My Account')]']")));

dropList.selectByVisibleText("  Sign Up");

Console:

1488399652115 geckodriver INFO Listening on 127.0.0.1:27695

Mar 01, 2017 3:20:52 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession

INFO: Attempting bi-dialect session, assuming Postel's Law holds true on the remote end

1488399652449 mozprofile::profile INFO Using profile path C:\Users\syama\AppData\Local\Temp\rust_mozprofile.pJeIYHUa7B3i

1488399652480 geckodriver::marionette INFO Starting browser C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe

1488399652542 geckodriver::marionette INFO Connecting to Marionette on localhost:61873

1488399655546 Marionette INFO Listening on port 61873

Mar 01, 2017 3:21:01 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession

INFO: Detected dialect: W3C

Clicked on the homepage-front end button in the home page

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died.

Build info: version: '3.0.1', revision: '1969d75', time: '2016-10-18 09:48:19 -0700'

System info: host: 'DESKTOP-A7VC6HV', ip: '192.168.1.90', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_111'

Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver

Capabilities [{rotatable=false, raisesAccessibilityExceptions=false, marionette=true, appBuildId=20170125094131, version=, platform=XP, proxy={}, command_id=1, specificationLevel=0, acceptSslCerts=false, processId=728, browserVersion=51.0.1, platformVersion=10.0, XULappId={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}, browserName=firefox, takesScreenshot=true, takesElementScreenshot=true, platformName=windows_nt}]

Session ID: a40cb531-8cd4-4fa2-adee-03a550df6130

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:622)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:368)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElementByXPath(RemoteWebDriver.java:473)

at org.openqa.selenium.By$ByXPath.findElement(By.java:361)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:360)

at Signup.main(Signup.java:44)

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: expected one element but was: <org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorCodes$KnownError@c4437c4, org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorCodes$KnownError@6193b845>

at com.google.common.collect.Iterators.getOnlyElement(Iterators.java:322)

at com.google.common.collect.Iterables.getOnlyElement(Iterables.java:284)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorCodes.toStatus(ErrorCodes.java:138)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.decode(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:92)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.decode(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:42)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:163)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:82)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:601)

... 5 more

Please help me to resolve this error and run my script successfully

[Jegadeesh mani]

Select dropList = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(locatorsid,'My Account')]']")));

Replace this line of code Instead of old one.

Because you're getting unhanded execution.

Note: try to entire locator name I didn't mention above line of code.

Please let me know so you have any concern on this.

Thanks

Jegadeesh

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[Xiang Dong]

after you click the first link, a new window will be opened, to look at element on the new opened window, you need to switch your webdriver to it firstly, then, you can use By by = By.linkText("My Account") to locate the "My Account" element

Note: "My Account" is not a <select> element, you can't treat it as <select> box, the way is click this element, then, sub-menu will be displayed and then locate "Sign Up" and click it.

--david

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Subject: Re: [selenium-users] unable to locate an element using xpath

To: "seleniu...@googlegroups.com" <seleniu...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Thursday, March 2, 2017, 2:39 AM

after you click the first link, a new window will be
opened, to look at element on the new opened window, you
need to switch your webdriver to it firstly, then, you can
use By by = By.linkText("My Account") to
locate the "My Account" element



Note: "My Account" is not a
<select> element, you can't treat it as
<select> box, the way is click this element, then,
sub-menu will be displayed and then locate "Sign
Up" and click it.



--david

raisesAccessibilityExceptions= false, marionette=true,

appBuildId=20170125094131, version=, platform=XP, proxy={},
command_id=1, specificationLevel=0, acceptSslCerts=false,
processId=728, browserVersion=51.0.1, platformVersion=10.0,

XULappId={ec8030f7-c20a-464f- 9b0e-13a3a9e97384},

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[eddieB]

Select dropList = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(.,'My Account')]']")));

you have an extra single quote marked in red, remove that and try 

[anemuday]

Poornima,

Below is the working code:

 //Objects and variable declaration
 //if you didn't update the Path system variable to add the full directory path to the executable as above mentioned then doing this directly through code

 System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "D:/Cigniti/Softwares/geckodriver.exe");
 
/* DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
 capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);
 WebDriver driver = new MarionetteDriver(capabilities);*/
 WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
 String appUrl = "http://phptravels.net/";

 
 //Launch the firefox browser
 
 driver.get(appUrl);
 
 //maximize the browser
 driver.manage().window().maximize();

 driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
 //functionality
 
 driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(.,'My Account')]")).click();
 System.out.println("Clicked on the My Account in the home page");
 
 driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(.,'Sign Up')]")).click();

One point to mention here is, you cannot use 'Select' for all element. Here 'My Account' is <ul> and items are <li>. You should not use Select in this case.

There is a separate html tag called ,<select> and its list items are <option>. Then only you should use Select in your code.

I hope the above helps.

Thanks,

Uday

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