C＃中找不到Selenium XPath错误

Question

I have an HTML page (opening using Firefox and/or Chrome), and I am trying to find the correct XPath of the (image) Element I am trying to click on the webpage. I'm coding in C# using Selenium Automation. Here is how the element looks like when I right-click and select inspect:

(The actual website is too long so I'm subbing it with {website} and {different-website}).

EDIT: I'm sorry I forgot, but the {website} is dynamic. And {different-website} is static.

<a href="https://{website}">
<img border="0" alt="open now" src="https://{different-website}.gif">
</a>

I'm trying to click the img using my automation, but everything I try the automation fails and says "Unable to locate element". I notice that the img im trying to click is kind of nested into the above {a} element. Maybe that's why it is so difficult to select and click. I've tried things such as:

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[starts-with(@href='https://www.{website}')]")).Click();

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[contains(@href='https://www.{website}')]")).Click();

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//img[(@src,'img1935.gif')]")).Click(); 

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//img[(@src,'img1935.gif')]/../a")).Click(); 

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[not(@href)/img/@src | //a[img]/@href")).Click(); 

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[@alt='open now']/@src")).Click(); 

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//img[@alt='open now']/@src")).Click(); 

All of these returned "Unable to locate Element" and I'm stuck on what else I should do or try. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Try //a[@href="https://{website}"]/img[1]

• All a elements (where href = "http://{website}")
• Then select the first img child element of those elements

You can test it here - that website will also give suggestions.

I find this page really useful when trying to work out XPath

Answer 2

If you have dynamic urls the you should avoid using fixed path in the selector.You can use something like:

//a[contains(@href, 'part_of_href_value')]

If the link is translated for different websites you can use something like:

//a[contains(@href, 'part_of_href_value1') or contains(@href, 'part_of_href_value2') or contains(@href, 'part_of_href_value3')]

You can use any part of the href. You can adapt the above selectors for images also, replace a with img and @href with @src

Example: I have 2 links with href's:
href= https://www.example1.com/blabla/page
href= http://www.second-example.org/bla/page-s


To select both links, i use example word since is common:
//a[contains(@href, 'example')]

To select both links by different parts/words:
//a[contains(@href, 'blabla/page') or contains(@href, 'bla/page')]

Answer 3

Many of your XPaths won't find what you are looking for. Have you tried something simple like

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a/img[@alt='open now']")).Click();

If this doesn't work, you need to provide more info or a link to the page.