I'm using C# and Selenium Webdriver and I'm trying to find a div Element in my html code which looks like this:
<div class="x-grid-cell-inner" style="text-align: left;" unselectable="on">
phys_tag_desc
</div>
I cant find a method to search for the value of the div Element with Selenium Webdriver. I already searched this site and checked the Selenium Webdriver Documentation, but couldn't find anything.
Well if text value is unique, then solution is simple. Try the xpath below:
//div[text()='phys_tag_desc']
If the text is not exact match. Try following:
//div[contains(text(),'phys_tag_desc')]
I have two ways.
Way 2 is more complex but more effective.
Way 1;
You can loop in all divs and look for some equals
Example:
foreach(HtmlElement o in webbrowser.Document.GetElementByTagName("div"))
{
HtmlElement yourElement;
if(o.GetAttribute("class")=="x-grid-cell-inner"&&o.GetAttribute("style")=="text-align: left;")
{
yourElement=o;
break;
}
DoSomethingWith(yourElememt);
}
The other way is follow elements path;
You can find the closer element that has a ID
Example:
<div id="element">
<div>content..</div>
<div>
<div class="x-grid-cell-inner" style="text-align: left;" unselectable="on">
phys_tag_desc
</div>
</div>
</div>
The closest element that have id on this example is
<div id="element">
your element's parent is 2. children of id="element" div
You can get it and follow path like this
yourElement = webbrowser.Document.GetElementById("element").Children[1].Children[0];
In other situation you can use the XPATH Boolean operators.
Try the xpath below:
By.XPath("//div[contains(#class,'*x-grid-cell-inner*') and contains(#unselectable, '*on*') and contains(text(),'*phys_tag_desc*')]")
Bye
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I have following elements on the page:
<span class="card-body">
<span>No tickets</span>
<h5 class="card-title">..</h5>
<p class="card-text card-text-top">..</p>
<p class="card-text">..</p>
</span>
There are several the same card-body elements in the DOM, however, I would like to identify the first one that does not contain <span>No tickets</span> child element.
What is the most correct locator which I should use, while working with selenium and C#?
To identify the first element that does not have a decendent <span>No tickets</span> element you can use the following xpath based locator strategy:
//span[#class='card-body'][not(.//span[text()='No tickets'])]
Your effective line of code will be:
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//span[#class='card-body'][not(.//span[text()='No tickets'])]"))
Snapshot of the example:
//span[#class='card-body'][not(span[text()='No tickets'])]
Gets the span with class card-body that does not have span with text "No tickets".
I am experimenting with web scraping and I am having trouble scraping a particular value out of some nested div classes. I am using the .NET HtmlAgilityPack class library in a .NET Framework C# Console App. Here is the div code:
<div class="ds-nearby-schools-list">
<div class="ds-school-row">
<div class="ds-school-rating">
<div class="ds-gs-rating-8">
<span class="ds-hero-headline ds-schools-display-rating">8</span>
<span class="ds-rating-denominator ds-legal">/10</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ds-nearby-schools-info-section">
<a class="ds-school-name ds-standard-label notranslate" href="https://www.greatschools.org/school?id=00870&state=MD" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Candlewood Elementary School</a>
<ul class="ds-school-info-section">
<li class="ds-school-info">
<span class="ds-school-key ds-body-small">Grades:</span>
<span class="ds-school-value ds-body-small">K-5</span>
</li>
<li class="ds-school-info">
<span class="ds-school-key ds-body-small">Distance:</span>
<span class="ds-school-value ds-body-small">0.8 mi</span>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
I want to scrape the "8" from the ds-hero-headline ds-schools-display-rating class. I am having trouble formulating the selector for the SelectNodes method on the DocumentNode object of the HtmlNode.HtmlDocument class.
I guess you might be having a trouble to write XPath to select the node. Try //*[contains(#class, 'ds-hero-headline') and contains(#class, 'ds-schools-display-rating')] with SelectNodes method.
However, this XPath could have a problem if the page your targeting would also have class name like ds-hero-headline-content, which ds-hero-headline can partially match. In that case, see the solution in How can I find an element by CSS class with XPath?
I would use this to extract 0.8 mi
//div[#class='ds-nearby-schools-list']/div[#class='ds-school-row']/div[#class='ds-nearby-schools-info-section']/ul[#class='ds-school-info-section']/li[#class='ds-school-info']/span[#class='ds-school-value ds-body-small' and preceding-sibling::span[#class='ds-school-key ds-body-small' and text()='Distance:']]/text()
Then this regex to group data:
^[0-9\.]+ (.*)$
At the end you can use some kind of conversion to save distance to an object.
Have you tried the following to get the 8. You can search for a specific span element with the class name to get the inner text.
Note: I used text file to load the html from your question.
string htmlFile = File.ReadAllText(#"TempFile.html");
HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(htmlFile);
HtmlNode htmlDoc = doc.DocumentNode;
HtmlNode node = htmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//span[#class='ds-hero-headline ds-schools-display-rating']");
Console.WriteLine(node.InnerText);
// output: 8
Alternate:
Another way is to specify the path that you want the value from, starting from the div element.
HtmlNode node2 = htmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//div[#class='ds-gs-rating-8']//span[#class='ds-hero-headline ds-schools-display-rating']");
Console.WriteLine(subNode.InnerText);
output
8
I hope I describe my problem/question in a comprehensible way.
I have and html that looks like this:
<div class="class-div">
<label class="class-label">
<span class="class-span">AAAA</span>
</label>
<div class="class-div-a">
<textarea class="class-textarea">
</textarea>
</div>
</div>
<div class="class-div">
<label class="class-label">
<span class="class-span">BBBB</span>
</label>
<div class="class-div-a">
<textarea class="class-textarea">
</textarea>
</div>
</div>
I want the Xpath for the TextArea where the value of the Label is AAAA to populate it with a value in Selenium.
So somelike like this...
wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementIsVisible(
By.XPath("//div[#class='class-div']/label[#class='class-label'][span[#class='class-span' and text()='AAAA']]/following-sibling::div[#class='class-div-a']/textarea[#class='class-textarea']"))).SendKeys(valueTextArea);
Problem could be in this waiter condition, ExpectedConditions.ElementIsVisible
The thing is that your <textarea> is not 'visible' in selenium context, visibility means that element is present in DOM (which is true) and it's size is greater then 0px which could be false for your <textarea> element. In java you would use ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElement() instead of ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElement(), not sure how it goes in C# but you get the picture.
Try and see if it solves your problem.
Let me quickly rephrase the question to make sure I understand, you need an xpath to find the textbox associated with the label where the text is AAAA.
You'll have to go back up the tree in this case, here are a couple of ways I might do that, although your xpath looks correct:
Using ancestor to be clear about which element you're moving up to (better IMO)
By.XPath("//label/span[text()='AAAA']/ancestor::div[#class='class-div']//textarea");
Or just moving back up the tree with ..
By.XPath("//label/span[text()='AAAA']/../../..//textarea");
If your xpath exists, use asikojevics answer. The C# method is ExpectedConditions.ElementExists(By)
****UPDATE****
Based on your comment of a trailing space after the text value, here is another xpath that should find the textarea in that case, using contains instead of text()=.
By.XPath("//label/span[contains(text(),'AAAA')]/ancestor::div[#class='class-div']//textarea");
I am trying to find an element which is a div inside a div...
here is example of the code:
<div class="col-md-4">
<div style="display: none;" id="multiplier-win" class="label label-success multiplier">2X</div>
<div style="display: block;" id="multiplier-lose" class="label label-danger multiplier">0X</div>
<div style="display: none;" id="multiplier-tie" class="label label-warning multiplier">1X</div>
</div>
I want to find the class="label label-success multiplier" and check if her style="display:none".
How do I write this in c#?
Please help me
thank you!
In your case, the elements have a unique ID. So instead of finding them by class name (which could lead to multiple/inaccurate results), you should use By.Id(...). It is more easy to write by hand than xpath, too.
Let's say your IWebDriver instance is called driver. The code looks like this:
IWebElement element = driver.FindElement(By.Id("multiplier-win"));
String style = element.GetAttribute("style");
...
I don't want to offend you, but you should probably use google before you post here. This is very basic code you will find in multiple tutorials about selenium.
Edit: In case you are looking for multiple elements of a class:
ReadOnlyCollection<IWebElement> elements = driver.FindElements(By.ClassName("..."));
foreach (IWebElement el in elements)
{
...
}
To Find the element:
IWebElement element = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//div[#class='label label-success multiplier']"));
To check if an element is displayed, this returns a bool (true if displayed, false if not displayed). If you go with philn's element list code, you can throw this line into his foreach statement and it will tell you which ones are displayed.
el.Displayed;
I m trying to find the element "import" using Selenium Webdriver in C#. Have tried the following codes but nothing find it.
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[#class='menu_bg']/ul/li[3]")).Click();
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[#id='import']/a")).Click();
driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("#import>a")).Click();
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[#class='menu_bg']/ul/li[3]/a")).Click();
driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("ul[#class='menu_bg']>li[value='3']")).Click();
Please help me out. Design page looks like below:
<body>
<div class="header_bg"></div>
<div class="menu_bg">
<ul class="menu">
<li id="retrieve"></li>
<li id="scan" class="test"></li>
<li id="import">
<a target="main" href="import/import.aspx" onclick="clickme(this,'import')">Import</a>
</li>
<li id="admin"></li>
<li id="help"></li>
<li style="float: right;"></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
All the time I got the error as below:
unable to find the element
XPath indexers are 1-based, as opposed to most other languages whereby they are 0-based.
This means you are actually targetting the 2nd li element, which has no anchor element.
So:
//*[#class='menu_bg']/ul/li[3]/a
However, this XPath query is not great and is too strict on position - thus although this newly fixed XPath above should work, I'd advise you to think of something else.
By reviewing this link(Thanks to #Arran), the above issue was fixed. 'switching' to the current IFrame directs Selenium to show any requests to that frame instead.
driver.SwitchTo().Frame()
You can do this by chaining Selenium 'FindElement' like so;
driver.FindElement(By.Id("import")).FindElement(By.TagName("a"));
which will give you the child of the element with ID that has a tag of 'a'.
Another way you could do this is by casting your Driver to an IJavascriptExecutor and executing javascript directly in the browser using a JQuery selector. I find this better for more complex Selenium lookups;
((IJavascriptExecutor)Driver).ExecuteScript("$("a[target='main'][href='import/import.aspx'])").click();