How can I create an XPath locator for this (duplicate) element?

[Mike Riley]

I am trying to navigate drop down menus and the web site developers
put identical strings for two menu items that I need to be able to
select between.

They look something like this:

<div style="blah blah blah">View Transactions</div>

Because the menus are dynamic based on various settings at the time, I
can't use the //div[13] like the IDE suggests (with no alternate
suggestion, BTW).

This path would work to get at the first one:
//div[text()='View Transactions']

Is there some variation where I can say go to the second one? I tried
putting [2] in all the places that made sense to me and none of them
worked. I am hoping someone can suggest a locator that will work. An
absolute path won't work because of the dynamic nature of the menus.

Mike

[Ashok Tulachan]

Hi Mike

I am sure the label might not be identical so try this

selenium.select("//div["label=View Transactions"]);

Mike

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Regards,

 

Ashok Tulachan

 

[Luke Inman-Semerau]

I believe you can do this:

(//div[.='View Transactions'])[2]

Going off memory and didn't try that myself though ;)

-Luke

[Oliver]

Thank Luke

[Vishal Mishra]

(//div[@style='View Transactions'])[<pass the count>]

[Mike Riley]

Hi Ashok,

Given:

<div style="blah blah blah">View Transactions</div>

...

<div style="blah blah blah">View Transactions</div>

How would that be able to distinguish between the two?

I haven't used label before, but I am sure that would need to be
either label()='' or @label='' and I tried both ways and it did not
work. It didn't find either of those elements, using the IDE to test
it.

Mike

[Mike Riley]

Thanks for the idea Luke and Vishal.

As with what Ashok posted, I tried several variations of this using
the IDE, but when clicking the Find button it says it could not find
the locator. Here is what I tried:

(//div[text()='View Transactions'])[2]
//(div[text()='View Transactions'])[2]
//div([text()='View Transactions'])[2]

I was not aware you could use parentheses in an XPath like this. Now
maybe my using the IDE, which would be using RC methods, is at fault
here. Is it possible that WebDriver would be able to handle this, but
RC would not?

Mike

[Ashok Tulachan]

Hi Mike

 

I thought that the label was different for every div. Anyway is 'id' for the element same as well?

 

If it is, that is very weird and difficult to automate as you can't do loop as well. 

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[Mike Riley]

Ashok,

There is no ID or NAME property for any of the menu items (don't get
me started!), so I can't use that. I was hoping someone would have an
idea for an XPath variation that would work for this. If it comes to
it I will ask for them to put one on it, but if I do I am going to ask
for it on all menu items and who knows when they will get it done.
That is why I was looking for a way to make it work with XPath.

Thanks.

Mike