How to type in the search textbox whose xpath is not static

[AYUSH GUPTA]

Hi Guys,

I am trying to type in a search box whose xpath is not fixed and changes every time I click.

Currently xpath is './/*[@id='u_jsonp_11_1p']/span/input' and last time it was './/*[@id='u_jsonp_9_1p']/span/input' 

I think the best way is to use href to locate this xpath but I am not sure how to do that.

Please let me know if anyone have any idea.

Thanks

Ayush Gupta

[Vikas Gahlaut]

In this case absolute xpath(html based) will be same..use that or go for css..

Best regards,
Vikas Gahlaut

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[Rakesh Sharma]

You may use //input[contains(@id,'u_jasonp')]

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[AYUSH GUPTA]

Hi, I am trying to use abosolute xpath as below:

selenium.type("html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div/span/span/input","r");

but I am getting below error :

Exception in thread "main" com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleniumException: ERROR: Element html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div/span/span/input not found

at com.thoughtworks.selenium.HttpCommandProcessor.throwAssertionFailureExceptionOrError(HttpCommandProcessor.java:112)

at com.thoughtworks.selenium.HttpCommandProcessor.doCommand(HttpCommandProcessor.java:106)

at com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium.type(DefaultSelenium.java:317)

at sel_practise1.main(sel_practise1.java:27)

Thanks

Ayush

[AYUSH GUPTA]

Hi...got my mistake. Was missing 'xpath='.

Thanks

Ayush

[shuklasa...@gmail.com]

You can use cssSelector as

                         [id*='u_jsonp']

                         or

                         [id^='u_jsonp']

[AYUSH GUPTA]

It worked out guys..Thanks

Regards

Ayush

On Friday, 11 April 2014, 13:06, "shuklasa...@gmail.com" <shuklasa...@gmail.com> wrote:

You can use cssSelector as

                         [id*='u_jsonp']

                         or

                         [id^='u_jsonp']

        

On Thursday, April 10, 2014 6:12:38 PM UTC+5:30, ayush gupta wrote:

Hi Guys,

I am trying to type in a search box whose xpath is not fixed and changes every time I click.

Currently xpath is './/*[@id='u_jsonp_11_1p']/ span/input' and last time it was './/*[@id='u_jsonp_9_1p']/ span/input' 

I think the best way is to use href to locate this xpath but I am not sure how to do that.

Please let me know if anyone have any idea.

Thanks

Ayush Gupta

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[Vikas Gaur]

You can use the below...

static WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.findElement(By.XPATH(".//*[@id='isCartBtn_btn']")).sendKeys("XYZ");

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