Robot Framework CSS Selector Help

[N.T.]

I want to use standard css to be able to find a certain element.

Before our search component was just id=search for all our sites (I use the same script for same sites since it's the same codebase)

Unfortunately the developer changed it so that it contains a primary key for each site/country

The search box id is now "search-component-<primary_key>

This is the sample of the html from the page

US:<input id="search-component-8798528996412">

AU:<input id="search-component-8798102914108">

Since they are all using the same code I want to be able to use the same script or locator, but robot-framework can't seem to support it.

I have tried [id|=search-component] and  [id^=search-component] . I am not sure what else I should do. I don't want to have to enter each primary key per country, because it seems too much of a hassle.

Any ideas?

 

[Hélio Guilherme]

Hi,

I tested online with:
xpath=//input[starts-with(@id,'search-component-')]

And it is valid (sorry don't know how to write in CSS locator mode).

Good luck.

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[Mike Pietsch]

Css doesn’t have a starts with…. outside of that, this site sometimes comes in handy for what you are wanting to do…

http://cssify.appspot.com

Mike

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[dm08]

It has see https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_attr_begin.asp

xpath=//input[starts-with(@id,'search-component-‘)] 

is equivalent of css=input[id^=’search-component’]

Dmitriy

[Mike Pietsch]

I did not know this.  Thanks