findBy(xpath) with contains(@href,...) has anyone got it ever working ?

[Christophe Boschmans]

• finding an element with xpath=..contains(@href)... never seems to work for me tried it many times i always ended up using text().
• is there somekind of selenium bug involved?
• Firepath has no problem with finding the right element but selenium always returns <undefined element>,  elementnotvisibleException

[Atul Mahajan]

Try using Xpath Relative Path... It will works.

[murali]

Hi,

i am not used contains for href. i used to write xpath like //a[@href='/your href url here'] for href attribute. It always works for me.

Thanks,

Murali

[Dmitry Munda]

This works for me
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(@href, 'somejsp.jsp?someID_id=" + someId + "')]"));

[Christophe Boschmans]

i tried the solution you suggested with the relative path // and @href= but no luck.

But if these solutions work for you guys then it must have  to do something  with the url starting with  a numeric ip address.

I do not have control over the name giving of the server so ..

  But does selenium use some kind of DNS translation? One that is adjustable like in a config file or something like that?

PS:I double posted the post today. Sorry about that, i didn't know for sure this post was actually posted

Op vrijdag 15 november 2013 13:18:46 UTC+1 schreef murali: