Can't get the span text from Robot

[Huizhen WU]

Hello all,

I'm trying to get text value from a <span>tag: code html :

<div id="homeGrid1headerListSearch" class="rapportNav roundCorner_ieless">

<div class="nbResult">

<span class="number">41</span>

Report(s)

</div>

I tried a lot of methods to locate the position of it like 

element text should be //div[@id='homeGrid1headerListSearch']/div/span[@class='number'] ${report_requested_number}

element text should be css=span.number                                                                                 ${report_requested_number}

element text should be //div[@id='homeGrid1headerListSearch']/div/span                                ${report_requested_number}

and it will be returned the same error :

connection                                                                                                                 | FAIL |

ValueError: Element locator 'css=span.number' did not match any elements.

Can some guys have an ideal about it?

Thanks : )

[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

Firebug [1] and firepath [2] are the best tools to solve issues like this.

-Tatu
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[1] http://getfirebug.com
[2] https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Firebug_Extensions#FirePath

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[Huizhen WU]

hello !!

Thanks for your solution.

I have already installed firebug, and I just add on firepath , I copied the xpath in to robot., it returned same error,,,,

connection                                                                                                                 | FAIL |

ValueError: Element locator '//*[@id='homeGrid1headerListSearch']/div[1]/span' did not match any elements.

and if I delete * like 

connection                                                                                                                 | FAIL |

ValueError: Element locator '//[@id='homeGrid1headerListSearch']/div[1]/span' did not match any elements.

it return error for :

InvalidSelectorException: Message: u'The given selector //[@id=\'homeGrid1headerListSearch\']/div[1]/span is either invalid or does not result in a WebElement. The following error occurred:\nInvalidSelectorError: Unable to locate an element with the xpath expression //[@id=\'homeGrid1headerListSearch\']/div[1]/span because of the following error:\n[Exception... "The expression is not a legal expression."  code: "12" nsresult: "0x805b0033 (SyntaxError)"  location: "<unknown>"]' ; Stacktrace: 

I'm lost.....

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[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

Then most likely the element is not yet there when the keyword gets executed. I usually do first:
Wait Until Page Contains Element keyword before I do any other actions on the desired DOM tree section. This is because I want to make sure that all required elements are present before I interact with them. And I try to choose the element to be the last element to be loaded on the page/DOM tree section.

-Tatu
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[NIKHIL RAJGARHIA]

I know its already 4 years of this post. Since I saw an error would post it.

If the elements are arranged in the same way as you have mentioned..then your xpath is wrong. I think only 'span[@class='number']' should work. Since, 'span' is not the child element of 'div' it's a sibling. I hope it helps.

Thanks,

Nikhil kumar