java selenium navigate through a webpage using xpath
Question
I'm trying to use selenium to make a login, navigate, fill a form and download a file. When i'm trying to navigate i need to click a link, sounds pretty basic. Since it has no id or name, i used FirePath to get the xPath( .//*[@id='id25']/li[4]/a ) then i did the following:
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='id25']/li[4]/a"));
Selenium returns me Unable to locate element: I did some reading here and there and tried a few different things:
driver.findElement(By.linkText("Network Support")).click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@title='Network Support']")).click();
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".LI_Primary"));
driver.findElement(By.xpath("[@id='id25']/li[4]/a"));
driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/form/span/div[1]/div/div[1]/div/ul/li[4]/a")).click();
None of those work, selenium always return "Unable to locate element:"
The html:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head id="Head1"></head>
<frameset id="EbpFrame" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" rows="111px,*">
<frame style="border:0px !important;" noresize="noresize" frameborder="0" framespacing="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="upper" src="/general/UpperNavigationRibbon.aspx?header=noname">
#document
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--
[if lte IE 7 ]> <html class="ie7"> <![endif]
-->
<!--
[if IE 8 ]> <html class="ie8"> <![endif]
-->
<!--
[if IE 9 ]> <html class="ie9"> <![endif]
-->
<!--
[if (gt IE 9)|!(IE)]><!
-->
<html>
<!--
<![endif]
-->
<head id="Head1"></head>
<body class="header" onload="SetFrameHeight()">
<form id="formm" action="UpperNavigationRibbon.aspx?header=noname" method="post">
<div class="aspNetHidden"></div>
<div class="aspNetHidden"></div>
<span id="spanContent">
<div id="page_container" class="header">
<ul id="global_nav"></ul>
<div id="primary_links">
<a class="eLogo" title="Home" href="javascript:menu_Controll('/Portal/Home.aspx')"></a>
<div style="width:810px">
<div id="primary_nav">
<ul id="id25" class="clearfix">
<li></li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
<li>
<a class="LI_Primary" title="Network Support" href="javascript:menu_Controll('/ContactAndhelp/ContactsAdmin.aspx?CategoryID=10')"></a>
</li>
<li></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clientLogo"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bottomgrad"></div>
</span>
<input id="hdnSerVar" type="hidden" value="fjunior@timbrasil.com.br" name="hdnSerVar"></input>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript"></script>
</body>
</html>
</frame>
<frame style="border:0px !important;" onload="AppBodyTrackHistory()" noresize="noresize" frameborder="0" framespacing="0" scrolling="auto" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="portalmain" src="/Portal/Home.aspx"></frame>
</frameset>
</html>
2 answers
solution1
1 ACCPTED 2014-10-22 19:07:03
The problem lies whitin the frames, as it can be seen here: How to select a frame using selenium?
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.name("upper")));
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='id25']/li[4]/a")).click();
Using the above will make selenium select the frame you need, and then click the link you want.
solution2
0 2014-10-22 18:34:54
After completing your html (it wasn't well formed) the xpath worked properly and found the element you want. Tested using http://www.xpathtester.com/xpath
EDIT
This is a html that works. Don't know if it's exactly your page..
<document>
<html>
<!--<![endif]-->
<head id="Head1"/>
<body class="header" onload="SetFrameHeight()">
<form id="formm" action="UpperNavigationRibbon.aspx?header=noname" method="post">
<div class="aspNetHidden"/>
<div class="aspNetHidden"/>
<span id="spanContent">
<div id="page_container" class="header">
<ul id="global_nav">
<div id="primary_links">
<a class="eLogo" title="Home" href="javascript:menu_Controll('/Portal/Home.aspx')"/>
<div style="width:810px">
<div id="primary_nav">
<ul id="id25" class="clearfix">
<li/>
<li/>
<li/>
<li>
<a class="LI_Primary" title="Network Support" href="javascript:menu_Controll('/ContactAndhelp/ContactsAdmin.aspx?CategoryID=10')">Network Support</a>
</li>
<li/>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</ul>
</div>
</span>
</form>
</body>
</html>
</document>
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