Create the Xpath for the following href for Selenium Webdriver
Question
Please help me to create the Xpath for the following href. I am using Selenium webdriver and have only IE browser. Following is the HTML: Need Xpath for : a href="javascript:OnEventQueue();">. I can use only IE browser and need to click on this link.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML Transitional//EN"><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<html>
<body>
<form name="runevent1" action="/epace/epace-cgi/eglcgids.exe?sessionid=" method="post" btnSubmit="javascript:preSumbit()" EParams="http://vaim1-apt-120/epace/epace-cgi/eglcgids.exe?sessionid=&Action=runevent1&EventType=&EventInst=#" EParamOptions="http://vaim1-apt-120/epace/epace-cgi/eglcgids.exe?sessionid=&Action=runevent1&EventType=&EventInst=#">
<table width="100%" align="center" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr class="topMenu">
<td align="right">
<span id="idSpanActionLinks">
<a href="javascript:OnEventQueue();">
<font class="topMenu">Event Queue</font>
</a>
</span>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
2 answers
solution1
1 ACCPTED 2015-02-24 14:13:51
Use the following algorithms to select your elements.
CSS
element[attribute(^|*|$|~)='attribute value']
Xpath
//element[(@attribute|contains|starts-with|ends-with(@attribute, 'value'))='value'
The xpath is a little bit uglier, and definitely not correct, but the CSS algorithm is correct.
When you want to match on ANY property, including href like you want to, use this algorithm.
Ask yourself these questions:
- what is the element I am selecting?
- what is the attribute I am selecting?
- is the attribute unique?
In your case, the answer to #1 is an <a> . Answer to number #2 is href . Answer #3, is probably not because there could be more href 's like this. whereas ID's, are usually unique. (it is called an identifier after all). what you can do is look at the parent and use it's ID.
In CSS : span#idSpanActionLinks > a will work just fine. (* # is just a css shortcut for id see here )
In Xpath : //span[@id='idSpaceActionLinks']/a
EDIT
After your comment, since you are wanting to match href , here you go:
CSS
a[href*='OnEventQueue']
Xpath
//a[contains(@href, 'OnEventQueue')]
Both will work.
Note that both of these statements mean, in English:
find me an
<a>element, whose attributehrefcontains the valueOnEventQueue
solution2
0 2015-02-24 13:21:15
The XPath is not unique. For different levels of "precision", you can have different paths.
Eg:
//*[@id="idSpanActionLinks"]/a
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