how to get title element from anchor tag (<a .... </a>) by Selenium

[Ripon Al Wasim]

Dear All,

I have the following snippet code:

<a id="4ea70e73ff0cae84ee82de1f" class="inactiveIndicator" href="javascript:;" title="Inactive">My Group-Ripon</a>

How can I get the value of "title" element? What's the xpath of the above code?

I am using Selenium RC with Java. I am also using TestNG as Framework.

br,

Ripon

[Mark Collin]

A working xpath based on the html provided would be:

 

//a[@id=’4ea70e73ff0cae84ee82de1f’]

 

In webdriver world you would be looking at the following:

 

String titleAttribute = driver.findElement(By.xpath(“//a[@id=’4ea70e73ff0cae84ee82de1f’]“)).getAttribute(“title”);

 

I suspect however that the ID is randomly generated and you’ll need something a little more involved than the above.

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[Jayakumar C]

For Se-RC:

selenium.getAttribute("//a[@id='4ea70e73ff0cae84ee82de1f']@title")

The general form of the method is getAttribute("locator@attribute")

You need to have some other locator, if the id is dynamic.

Jayakumar

[Ripon Al Wasim]

Thanks for the quick reply. It's my fault not to mention ID is dynamic. So it's better not to use id.

br,

Ripon

[Mark Collin]

So how exactly are we supposed to you an accurate xpath when you have given us 1 element from the page with an invalid ID? 

 

I mean seriously?

 

Let me just read your mind for you and magically construct the html using a mixture of black magic, ritual sacrifice and my amazing telepathy skills…

 

Got it, the answer you want is now in my mind, use your own telepathy skills to get it!

 

(apologies if the above is a bit OTT but come on how are we supposed to answer anything without any information?)

[Arun Dev @ work]

Following is the HTML for the icon - adchoice icon. i need to test it.
as you see the id - "te-bab2-anch-mo" is randomly generated. so i am not
able specify anything stable, any ideas ?

Firebug:-
<span id="te-bab2-anch-mo" style="font-weight: normal; font-family:
arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none; display:
none;"><span style="line-height:15px;

vertical-align:top;"><span
style="font-size:8pt;font-weight:normal;text-
transform:none;color:#000;margin: 0 13px 0 0;"></span><img
width="77px" height="15px" style="border:none;position:absolute;right:
0px;top:0;" src="http://choices.truste.com/assets/ad_choices_en.png"></
span></span>




Error message when verifying

[error] Element link=[close] not found

[Mark Collin]

*sigh*

 

An XPath is a representation of a journey down your DOM.  If we don’t have a map of the DOM, we can’t tell you how to navigate down it to your required destination.

 

What you are asking us to do is direct you from India to Britain when you are only giving us a map of London…

 

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[Ripon Al Wasim]

Hello Mark,

You are right. Anyway, by the help of your comments, I have got it. I have solved it by the following way:

selenium.getAttribute("//a[@class='inactiveIndicator']@title");

Thanks again.,

br,

Ripon Al Wasim

[bis]

I think this is right for in ruby.

driver.find_element(:tag_name => 'a').attribute('title').text

[Ripon Al Wasim]

thanks all, for your quick feedback. I have solved it by help of you.

br,

Ripon