如何使用Selenium WebDriver获取CSS选择器？

Question

I'm trying to create a dynamic "element map" of the elements displayed inside a banner menu including the link displayed for each menu. This map will be stored inside a String[][] matrix, which will be used for different methods and tests.

To do that I get the element's href attribute and create my own CSS selector for each link displayed in the menus. This is my the code to create the CSS:

CSS = (String)element.getAttribute("href").subSequence((element.getAttribute("href").length()-20), element.getAttribute("href").length());

CSS="a[href*='" + CSS +"']";

That works pretty well, but I have some links that run some JavaScript code and I cannot create the CSS selector for them.

Is there any onther way to get the CSS selector from a WebElement? Using Firebug I can get the CSS path. Could I get this CSS path during the execution having the WebElement? Any other suggestions?

Answer 1

The answer is No . You cannot extract a CSS selector from a WebElement.

Why? Because the WebElements themselves are found by the By class.. What if the By specified was xpath ? How would it populate the CSS selector?