Issue 5459 in selenium: InvalidSelectorError: The result of the xpath expression is: [object Text]
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Apr 7, 2013, 3:47:56 AM4/7/13
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New issue 5459 by vishal...@gmail.com: InvalidSelectorError: The result
of the xpath expression is: [object Text]
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5459
Here is the html source code of the page:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<form action="">
<input type="radio" name="sex" value="female">Male<br>
<input type="radio" name="sex" value="male">Female
</form>
<p><b>Note:</b> When a user clicks on a radio-button, it becomes checked,
and all other radio-buttons with equal name become unchecked.</p>
</body>
</html>
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_radio
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open the application using selenium webDriver
FirefoxDriver Browser = new FirefoxDriver();
Browser.get("http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_radio");
2. Read the text/label of the radio button whose html attribute
value="female"
String XPATH = "//input[@value='female']/following-sibling::text()"
String LABEL = Browser.findElement(By.xpath(XPATH)).getText();
3. An InvalidSelectorError exception is raised by WebDriver:
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException:
The given selector //input[@value='Red']/following-sibling::text() is
either invalid or does not result in a WebElement. The following error
occurred:
InvalidSelectorError: The result of the xpath
expression "//input[@value='Red']/following-sibling::text()" is: [object
Text]. It should be an element.
This works fine with Selenium IDE and RC but not with WebDriver.
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Ideally it should return the label of the radio button
Selenium version: 2.31.0
OS: Windows XP Professional SP2
Browser: FireFox
Browser version: 19.0.2
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New issue 5459 by vishal...@gmail.com: InvalidSelectorError: The result
of the xpath expression is: [object Text]
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5459
Here is the html source code of the page:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<form action="">
<input type="radio" name="sex" value="female">Male<br>
<input type="radio" name="sex" value="male">Female
</form>
<p><b>Note:</b> When a user clicks on a radio-button, it becomes checked,
and all other radio-buttons with equal name become unchecked.</p>
</body>
</html>
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_radio
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open the application using selenium webDriver
FirefoxDriver Browser = new FirefoxDriver();
Browser.get("http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_radio");
2. Read the text/label of the radio button whose html attribute
value="female"
String XPATH = "//input[@value='female']/following-sibling::text()"
String LABEL = Browser.findElement(By.xpath(XPATH)).getText();
3. An InvalidSelectorError exception is raised by WebDriver:
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException:
The given selector //input[@value='Red']/following-sibling::text() is
either invalid or does not result in a WebElement. The following error
occurred:
InvalidSelectorError: The result of the xpath
expression "//input[@value='Red']/following-sibling::text()" is: [object
Text]. It should be an element.
This works fine with Selenium IDE and RC but not with WebDriver.
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Ideally it should return the label of the radio button
Selenium version: 2.31.0
OS: Windows XP Professional SP2
Browser: FireFox
Browser version: 19.0.2
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sele...@googlecode.com
Apr 7, 2013, 10:29:36 AM4/7/13
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Status: WorkingAsIntended
Labels: -Status-Untriaged
Comment #1 on issue 5459 by james.h....@gmail.com: InvalidSelectorError:
might have been perfectly acceptable in Selenium RC (and by extension,
Selenium IDE), the methods on the WebDriver WebElement interface require an
element object, not just any DOM node object. WebDriver is working as
intended. To fix the issue, you'd need to change the HTML markup to wrap
the text node inside an element, like a <span>.
Status: WorkingAsIntended
Labels: -Status-Untriaged
Comment #1 on issue 5459 by james.h....@gmail.com: InvalidSelectorError:
The result of the xpath expression is: [object Text]
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5459
Your xpath doesn't return an element; it returns a text node. While this
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5459
might have been perfectly acceptable in Selenium RC (and by extension,
Selenium IDE), the methods on the WebDriver WebElement interface require an
element object, not just any DOM node object. WebDriver is working as
intended. To fix the issue, you'd need to change the HTML markup to wrap
the text node inside an element, like a <span>.
sele...@googlecode.com
Oct 21, 2013, 3:26:06 PM10/21/13
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Updates:
Cc: Samit.Badle
Comment #2 on issue 5459 by barancev: InvalidSelectorError: The result of
Issue 3635 has been merged into this issue.
Cc: Samit.Badle
Comment #2 on issue 5459 by barancev: InvalidSelectorError: The result of
Issue 3635 has been merged into this issue.
sele...@googlecode.com
Oct 21, 2013, 3:27:06 PM10/21/13
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Comment #3 on issue 5459 by barancev: InvalidSelectorError: The result of
Issue 2871 has been merged into this issue.
sele...@googlecode.com
Jan 7, 2014, 11:04:55 AM1/7/14
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Comment #4 on issue 5459 by chandra...@gmail.com: InvalidSelectorError: The
result of the xpath expression is: [object Text]
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5459
You can use this code :
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5459
FoundObjectCount =
FindWebElementCount(ieDriver,"xpath", "//input[@type='radio' and
(contains(@name,'XXX'))]");
for(int objcnt = 1; objcnt <= FoundObjectCount; objcnt++) {
FoundObject =
ieDriver.findElement(By.xpath(".//table[@class='XXX']/tbody/tr["+objcnt+"]/td/label"));
if (FoundObject.getText().equalsIgnoreCase(strSalecycle)) {
FoundObject =
ieDriver.findElement(By.xpath(".//table[@class='XXX']/tbody/tr["+objcnt+"]/td/input"));
ObjectClick(FoundObject);
LogInfo("WebElement is Selected of Object id
is: "+FoundObject.getAttribute("id"));
break;
} else{
LogInfo("WebElement is Not Present in UI");
break;
}
When the HTML looks like this:
<Table>
<TR>
<TD><INPUT id=XXX value="JUNK" type=radio name=ABCXXX><LABEL
for=idXXX>TEXTNEEDTOREAD1 </LABEL>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><INPUT id=XXX value="JUNK" type=radio name=ABCXXX><LABEL
for=idXXX>TEXTNEEDTOREAD2 </LABEL>
</TD>
</TR>
</Table>
sele...@googlecode.com
Sep 22, 2014, 4:52:31 AM9/22/14
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Comment #5 on issue 5459 by rizalyn....@gmail.com: InvalidSelectorError:
The result of the xpath expression is: [object Text]
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5459
Any updates regarding this issue?
sele...@googlecode.com
Sep 22, 2014, 5:17:54 AM9/22/14
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Comment #6 on issue 5459 by arran.hu...@gmail.com: InvalidSelectorError:
The result of the xpath expression is: [object Text]
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5459
This is a "working as intended" issue, so if you've got any sample pages or
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5459
code that could help prove otherwise then you'll need to post them -
otherwise there is literally nothing anybody can do because the only piece
of code and reproducible material someone has given has proven WebDriver
*is* working as it's intended to do.
sele...@googlecode.com
Jan 26, 2015, 8:18:47 AM1/26/15
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Comment #7 on issue 5459 by vinod.ko...@zenq.com: InvalidSelectorError: The
result of the xpath expression is: [object Text]
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5459
http://only-testing-blog.blogspot.in/2014/01/textbox.html
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=5459
I want to retreive and verify for the label 'First name' in the above
page.I've used below
String
s3=d.findElement(By.xpath(".//text()[followingsibling::input[@name='fname']]")).getText();
Im getting
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: The given
selector .//text()[following-sibling::input[@name='fname']] is either
invalid or does not result in a WebElement. The following error occurred:
InvalidSelectorError: The result of the xpath
expression ".//text()[following-sibling::input[@name='fname']]" is: [object
Text]. It should be an element.
For documentation on this error, please visit:
http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/invalid_selector_exception.html
pleasee help me out
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