xpath for sibling element

[Davina Armstrong]

I have a checkbox in my app with a label preceeding it. I need to
figure out an xpath locator for the checkbox based on the label text.
I'm not sure how to get to it. The html is

<tr><td width="110px"><div class="gwt-Label">Group By:</div></td><td
width="5px"></td><td><span class="gwt-CheckBox foo-check-box"
style="width: 100%;"><input type="checkbox" id="gwt-uid-233"
tabindex="0"><label for="gwt-uid-233"></label></span></td></tr>

I'm trying to click on the checkbox next to the label "Group By".

I'm starting to get the hang of this selenium thing, but still need
some help!

Thanks,
Davina

[Ross Patterson]

This ought to work. It means "the <td><span class='gwt-CheckBox'><input type='checkbox'> contained within the <tr> that contains <td><div class='gwt-Label'>Group By"

xpath=//tr[td/div[@class='gwt-Label' and text() = 'Group By']/td/span[@class='gwt-CheckBox']/input[@type='checkbox']

You can probably simplify that a bit, to:

xpath=//tr[td/div/text() = 'Group By']//input[@type='checkbox']

which means "the <input type='checkbox'> contained somewhere within the <tr> that contains <td><div>Group By"

But if the checkbox's id (gwt-uid-233) is repeatable, as these things often are, it would be simpler to use it directly:

id=gwt-uid-233

Ross Patterson

Thanks,
Davina

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[ds tara]

Worked like a charm!  Thanks so much, Ross!  (BTW, that ID isn't consistent.  I'm working with our devs to get static ids on on all our widgets, but in the meantime...)

[Mark Collin]

I would suggest:

//label[.='Group By']/preceeding-sibling::input

Regards

Mark

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Thanks,
Davina

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[Michael Hwee]

"//div[text()='Group By:']//input[@id='gwt-uid-233']"

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Thanks,
Davina

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[Ritesh]

Hi,

If you have multiple rows,and all are following same pattern like you
have shown in your code

<tr>
<td width="110px">
<div class="gwt-Label">Group By:</div>
</td>

<td width="5px">
</td>

<td>
<span class="gwt-CheckBox foo-check-box" style="width: 100%;">
<input type="checkbox" id="gwt-uid-233" tabindex="0">
<label for="gwt-uid-233">
</label>
</span>
</td>
</tr>

You can use following approach

int count=1;
while(selenium.isElelmentPresent(//tr["+count+"])) //you have to
specify xpath up to row, here I have used only tr
{
if(selenium.isElementPresent(//tr["+count+"]/td/div[text()='Group
By:']))
{
selenium.click((//tr["+count+"]/td[3]/span/input);
break;
}
count++;
}

Let me know If this approach will not work.

Thanks
Ritesh

[Mark Collin]

In my opinion you are vastly overcomplicating things here.

The code snippet you have supplied will programmatically iterate through
each row in the table until it finds a row that matches the criteria. At
this point iw ill click on the input and break out of the loop.

You could do exactly the same thing with one line of code:

selenium.click("//tr[td/div[.'Group By:']]/td[3]/span/input");

or if you want to check the element is there first:

if (selenium.isElementPresent("//tr[td/div[.'Group
By:']]/td[3]/span/input")){
selenium.click("//tr[td/div[.'Group By:']]/td[3]/span/input");
}

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