Find element in Selenium using XPATH or CSS Selector
Question
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
3 answers
solution1
2 2014-06-09 13:54:49
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.
solution2
1 2014-06-10 09:53:00
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()
solution3
0 2015-12-03 15:01:35
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();
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