Problem Using XPath Selectors

[Or Perlman]

I have been trying for the last couple of hours to use an xpath selector in casperJS.

Unfortunately, none of the selectors I write (even something such as: '//*[@id="enabled_1_0_BONUSFF1E"]') work.

I receive an error saying: FAIL the element exists.

I tried using the example in the casperJS site:

http://casperjs.org/selectors.html

and also changing the user-agent:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14068419/not-able-to-get-elements-using-xpath-in-casperjs
http://techslides.com/using-casperjs-to-make-multibrowser-screenshots/

but nothing seems to work.

I am using casperJS 1.0.2 with phantomJS 1.8.1.

Do anyone have any suggestion how to fix this problem?

[Ankita]

Hi 

I tried something like this on casperJS with coffee script which did work for me..

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[Ankita]

This might work for you

this.click(

      '{

        type: 'xpath',

        path: '//[@id="enabled_1_0_BONUSFF1E"]') '

      }');

[Evan Rowley]

I've just spent an hour working out some XPath queries. Not sure if this will fix yours, but you could rewrite it as so and see what happens:

 '//*[contains(@id,"enabled_1_0_BONUSFF1E")]'

I don't know why replacing the equals operand should do anything, but my query evolved this way and it works:

'//*[contains(@class,"inputtext") and contains(@type,"text") and contains(@name,"email")]'

[Evan Rowley]

And one more thing. If you're running some kind of *nix then you could use grep and Casper#debugHTML() to see if the correct HTML elements are actually coming though.

Place this.debugHTML(); somewhere in your .js, like:

casper.then(function() {
    this.test.assertExists({
        type: 'xpath',
        path: '//*[contains(@class,"inputtext") and contains(@type,"text") and contains(@name,"email")]'
    }, this.debugHTML());
});

and then at the console when you run it, pipe the output to grep like so:

casperjs myscript.js | grep enabled_1_0_BONUSFF1E