Deleting rows created at runtime

[newbie]

I am trying to add few rows in a web based application UI and then delete the same row using Selenium IDE. Now the problem is the web page could have 0 or more number of rows already present. I was using xpath to determine the position of the element like 

xpath=(//a[contains(text(),'Delete')])[4]

But in case the row I added is not the fourth row, any other fourth row will get deleted. Also, the rows I add has 3-4 columns and there could be identical column data present in the existing rows.

for example

Agent 1      UK         Blue

Agent 2     France    Yellow

Agent 3     UK          Yellow

Agent 2     Italy        White

Agent 5    Italy         Blue

Any help?

[newbie]

I got the number of rows in the UI and stored in a variable row by using 

<td>storeXpathCount</td>

<td>//html/body/div[2]/center/table/tbody/tr</td>

<td>row</td>

but how do i use the variable row in the xpath to delete the nth row

what i need to do is use something like

xpath=(//a[contains(text(),'Delete')])[row] 

instead of 

xpath=(//a[contains(text(),'Delete')])[4]    - to delete the 3rd row in the table

as the number of rows will be dynamic

here [row] or [${row}] doesn't work

[newbie]

There is a delete link for each row. And the problem is I cannot detect the row by any of the values present as there could be other rows present with the same value in any particular column.

On Saturday, July 14, 2012 9:19:34 PM UTC+5:30, Veeraraghavan Ramamoorthy wrote:

Is there any possibility of selecting the row and deleting the row by clicking on "delete" button.

Regards
Veera.

[Karthik Kulkarni]

how abt the x path of the delete link on each row . There shd be some change with that

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[Selenium User]

Hi, 

Try identifying text of the each row and check whether it is added by you or not. 

If yes, delete that row from the table. 

Thanks

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[Darrell Grainger]

How would you find the row you wanted to delete as a manual tester? What is it that you see which says, this is the row I want to delete? For example, if I added the fourth row and it is the set { "Agent 2", "Italy", "White" }, the 'Delete' link is on the same row and I can find the table  then I might do:

    WebElement table = driver.findElement(by1);  // by1 is a By locator which finds the table

    String xpath1 = "tbody/tr/td[text()='Agent 2']/../td[text()='Italy']/../td[text()='White']/../a[text()='Delete']";

This xpath will basically find the row which has all three strings on it. I'm using exact match for everything but you can change that to contains(text(),'Agent 2'), etc. if that matters. If having all three strings on the same row isn't enough and the order matters, i.e. you might have one row with { "Agent 2", "Italy", "White" } and another with { "White", "Agent 2", "Italy" } then you change the above xpath by adding position() indicates, e.g.

    String xpath1 = "tbody/tr/td[text()='Agent 2' and position() = 1]/../td[text()='Italy' and position() = 2]/../td[text()='White' and position() = 3]/../a[text()='Delete']";

Darrell

[Vladislav Mkrtychev]

Hello,

Could you post HTML for the delete link?
And for one of the rows in that table.

Thanks!

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[santoshsarma jayanthi]

As Darrell said, You need to locate the delete link based on the unique value(column) in that row using XPath.

If you post your html snippet here,I/Anyone shall try to give xpath.

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[Sweta Shahi]

Thanks Darrell,

But I am using IDE not sure how I can execute your commands in IDE. The copied xpath of each of the element of the row I added are as follows:

Agent 1 = /html/body/div[2]/center/table/tbody/tr[7]/td

White = /html/body/div[2]/center/table/tbody/tr[7]/td[2]

Italy = /html/body/div[2]/center/table/tbody/tr[7]/td[3]

that is the row I added was the seventh row in the table. The locator isn't able to find the element if i give something like 

xpath=//html/body/div[2]/center/table/tbody/tr[contains(text(),'Agent 1')]

Here is the html snippet for that row:

<tr>

<td style="text-align: left;">Agent 1</td>

<td style="text-align: left;">White</td>

<td style="text-align: left;">Italy</td>

<td style="text-align: left;"></td>

<td>

<a href="javascript:editAgent('updatepteagent.htm?id=23')">Edit</a>

</td>

<td>

<a href="javascript:deleteAgent('deleteagent.htm?id=23')">Delete</a>

</td>

</tr>

[newbie]

Any help? I am still stuck!

[santoshsarma jayanthi]

try this

//td[text()='Italy']/following-sibling::td/a[text()='Delete']

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[ready123]

Hey 


Did you get reply for your proble....i am also facing same problem kindly reply me

[newbie]

No I didn't get a response here. I am hence deleting the last row using 

xpath=(//a[contains(text(),'Delete')])[last()] 

this works for screens where the most recent row is added at the bottom of the table

but i m still working for a better solution where I scan through all the values using a while loop and then select the row based on the values I had entered while creating the row. something like 

while (i < numrows)

if firstcolumn_value = "my test value" goto outofloop

i++

endwhile

outofloop

clickAndWait | xpath=(//a[contains(text(),'Delete')])[${i}] 

hope this helps.