locate an element that is changing its ID and xpath everytime

[supriya]

HOW to locate an element who's ID and xpath is changing continuously?

Go to the site www.ibibo.com
Do click the image "login with fb Id" on the rigth hand side and type
the facebook id and password to the popup window and do click the
"login" botton which is located at the bottom layer of that popup
window.
when i m recording all this uding IDE , Every time the ID of dat Login
button is getting change.
Please tell me how to handle such type of elements..?
Thanks
Supriya Singla

[Vishal Mishra]

Try DOM or JS locators in this case.

[supriya singla]

DOM works in Web driver also?

Thanks

Supriya Singla

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Vishal Mishra <vishal....@gmail.com> wrote:

Try DOM or JS locators in this case.

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[jeevan]

Hi,
One thing u can use name=login which is not changing. And second thing with the ID the first two characters of the ID is same..so we can play with this..like use xpath with contains..

//input[contains(text(),'somevalue')].....



Thanks,
Jeevan.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Vishal Mishra <vishal....@gmail.com> wrote:

Try DOM or JS locators in this case.

[supriya singla]

Thank you so much. Now its working. But the second option i m not getting.

Yes first 2 characters are same.

But how to play with them?

[jeevan]

:) well...u can play with xpath contains like..

//input[contains(text(),'somevalue')].
//input....this can be changed to     
 - > a
 - > link
 - > table
 etc...followed by [contains(text(),'here u can give the part of the element if it changes frequently')]
else u can use :
1. ID
2.Name
3. Link
4.ClassName
5.CssSelector
6.finally xpath.....dont use xpath directly...even for dynamically changing objects we can find the value tag or classname or title or alt.
If u not able to find then go for Xpath.

Thanks,
Jeevan

[supriya singla]

Ok. Thanks a lot Jeevan.:)

[Javed Chowdry]

I have this xpath ""//*[@id='deleteLogoLink750533']"

After deleteLogoLink the numbers constantly change. can someone please advise how can i create customize xpath for this. This is link xpath though. please help