Using xpath to click a button after text

[Usha Loutongbam]

Hi,

The truncated version of the HTML source code I have looks something like this:

<tbody>

<tr>       </tr>

<tr>       

      <div>

      <td><div><span class="logo" style="background-image: url(/images/logos/ab.gif);"></span>

     <span class="pc_name">Apple</span></div></td>

      <td>   </td>

                      <td>   </td>.............

      <td><div><input type="image" class="book-btn" title="Book this" alt="Book this" src="/images/buttons/book.gif" tripid="7"/>

...................

<tbody>

<tr>...............................

I'm looking for the first instance of the text "Apple" or the image file "ab.gif" which could be in multiple <tbody>. I then want to click on a book button (book-btn) on the same row as this text found. The text is always on first cell and the book button is always on the 7th cell.

So far, I haven't been able to do so using xpath on FireWatir 1.6.2. Tried some examples given by Angrez and others, but it still is not working:

ff.button(:xpath, "//span[@text='Apple']/../td[7]/div/input").click()

ff.button(:xpath, "//[contains(text(),'Apple')]/../td[7]/input").click() 

Both give an error saying "Unable to locate element, using :xpath...". Am I doing something wrong here? 

Any help appreciated!

Thanks,

Usha

[Angrez Singh]

I think "//span[@text='Apple']/../" points to "div" tag because div is parent of that span. May be you can try
"//span[@text='Apple']/../../../../" it will point to "div/td/div/tr" and then you can do "td[7]"

Let me know if that works. I guessed this from the HTML you send.

- Angrez

[Usha Loutongbam]

After making small changes for the path (you suggested) and the attribute, it worked: ff.button(:xpath, "//span[text()='Apple']/../../../td[7]/div/input").click()

For some reason it is not working with "@text". If I replace it with "text()" it works.

Thanks for the help!

[Angrez Singh]

This is because text in not "attribute" of element its a "property".

- Angrez