how to click the span element in dropdown by selenium webdriver? - selenium-webdriver

How to click smartphone element in dropdown by selenium Web driver?please find the code
<div id="tooltip_menu">
<li class="level0 nav-1 first level-top"
<a class="level-top" onclick="event1('Smart Phones')" href="http://www.vmall.my/index.php/smart-phones.html">
<span>Smart Phones</span>

Use an XPath expression, like this:
//span[text()='Smart Phones']
Set your expression to a By locator variable, say SmartPhoneSelectionLocator,
and then in your test, use SmartPhoneSelectionLocator.click();
So perhaps the code in your Page Object would look like:
By SmartPhoneSelectionLocator = By.xpath("//span[text()='Smart Phones']");
Also, it's recommended you actually wrap the behavior of the above action in a method in your Page Object.

Please inspect on selecting the value which frame has been loaded on webpage. You have to switch to that frame then select the value from dropdown.
driver.switchTo().frame(name_or_id);
now select the dropdown. hope it will work for you.

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"How to fix 'at org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select.<init>' error in selenium"

I have created the object of Select in selenium to handle dropdown . Also have included the associated packages. Yet the dropdown is not getting selected. Kindly help!
Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html[1]/body[1]/div[1]/div[1]/header[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[6]/ul[1]/li[1]/a[1]")));
select.selectByValue("Blouses");
I am recieving the following error "at org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select.(Select.java:48)";
Alongwith a note when i hover over Select -
org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select
Note: This element neither has attached source nor attached Javadoc and hence no Javadoc could be found.
As far as I can see your XPath expression ends with a which indicates <a> HTML tag which in its turn stands for a hyperlink
In order to be able to use Select class you need to pass to it's constructor a WebElement instance which will point to a <select> HTML tag.
If there is no <select> elements in your page source code - it means that the dropdown is being generated by means of CSS and JavaScript therefore you just need to click the link with the Blouses text which in its turn can be as simple as:
driver.findElementByLinkText("Blouses").click()
If you still want to use XPath - be aware that you can make it a lot shorter, readable and reliable: limit your search scope to hyperlinks only like //a and utilise text() XPath function to match only "interesting" links, the expression which will click the link with Blouses text would be something like:
driver.findElementByXPath("//a[text()='Blouses']").click();

click method is not working properly in selenium webdriver

i am trying to Automate flipkart website in which i am trying to change address but "add new adress" is not getting clicked i have attached the snapshot
my code is like driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='ng-app']/div/div[2]/ul/li[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/a/span")).click();
please give the appropriate help
I doesn't look that you are clicking active element, the xpath is //*[#id='ng-app']/div/div[2]/ul/li[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/a/span not correct it clicks on some span.
Use Firepath https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firepath/ to get the xpath.
To ensure that button is clickable Use isDisplayed() and isEnabled() method before clicking on "Add New Address" button, this method return boolean value.
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='ng-app']/div/div[2]/ul/li[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/a/span")).isDisplayed();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='ng-app']/div/div[2]/ul/li[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/a/span")).isEnabled();
Also you can verify that element is exist on page or not using below code
if(driver.findElements(byVal).size()!=0){
// Element is present.
}
hope it may helpful to identify cause of issue, why its not clickable.
First and foremost, Use a customized Xpath instead of the one you are using which is extracted directly from the browser. If no customized Xpath can be constructed then try a customized Css or any other locator if possible.
Try to go through the following attempts in order (I hope you can grasp why this is):
1- If .click() still doesn’t work, then keep on changing the values of the attributes you are using to construct your customized xpath, cssSelector, or locator.
2- Use the Actions class.
3- Use JavaScript executioner
4- instead of click(), try using any of: .sendKeys(“\n”). Or .sendKeys(keys.ENTER) or .sendKeys(keys.RETURN)

Not able to click and element using Selenium

I am trying to automate 'Tableau' login screen and download reports flow. Everything works fine till I reach the 'Download' button. The first problem is I am NOT able to right click on the Download button and do an 'Inspect' in Chrome which is weird. I somehow am able to find the xpath by going through the whole page. When i try to click it I get "Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[3]/div[4]/span[1]"}".
The code that I am using is mentioned below:
String xPath = "/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[3]/div[4]/span[1]";
(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20))
.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath(xPath)));
driver.findElement(By.xpath(xPath)).click();
The page layout is like this from where I am picking the xpath
<div class="tabToolbarButton tab-widget" style="-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; width: 77.4px;">
<span class="tabToolbarButtonImg tab-icon-download"></span>
<span class="tabToolbarButtonText">Download</span></div>
<span class="tabToolbarButtonImg tab-icon-download"></span>
<span class="tabToolbarButtonText">Download</span>
</div>
Any help would be appreciated. What could be the reason for not able to 'Inspect'??
If you are not able to right click on the element, you can still right click anywhere on the page and select Inspect this element. You can then grab little binocular icon(tool tip message-select an element in the page to inspect it) and point it to the desired web element to check the xpath.
1st thing you need to check if you are writing xpath correctly. On a chrome you can do that without any plugin. On the developer window(same window which gets open when you select Inspect Element option), look for Console window and write your xpath as mentioned below and hit Enter.
$x("Write x path here")
for e.g. xpath for google search box
$x("//input[#id='lst-ib']")
I'm not sure why you writing absolute xpath. Its a bad practice. You can write x path for Download button in better way.
e.g.
(//span[#class='tabToolbarButtonText'])
I got the problem. So it seems the web page I was trying to automate has used frames. That is why even after providing the xpath the element was not getting clicked. I had to use 'switchTo.frame' in order to get the frame in focus and then I was able to click the element. Thanks for all the responses.
What I have still not understood is that why I was not able to inspect the element directly but that is a different question.

Unable to locate a web element using protractor in jasmine framework

I tried to locate an element on the page with the following but couldn't do.
element(by.css('.organizer-text.ng-binding')).click();
element(by.className('organizer-text')).click();
element(by.linkText('All Cases(1)')).click();
element(by.css('span[class="organizer-text"]')).click();
element(by.css('span[ng-class="{'folder-selected' : isSelected(node)}"]')).click();
element(by.css('span[title="All Cases (1)"')).click();
element(by.xpath('div//span[title()="All Cases(1)"]')).click();
Attaching the screenshot of the element with the DOM. Could you please help me on how to locate it?
<span class="organizer-text ng-binding"
tooltip="buildLabel(node.name, node.totalCases)"
ng-click="onLabelClick($event, node)"
ng-class="{'folder-selected' : isSelected(node)}"
ng-show="!node.showEditName" title="All Cases (1)">
All Cases (1)
</span>
The structure is div->span->multiple spans here (one of the spans here is the element)
try
element(by.xpath('//span[#title="All Cases(1)"]')).click();
I used browser.ignoreSynchronization = true; after logging into the page and it worked.
Looks like you found your answer yourself. But, this is for your own information. Just try this work flow out.
Right-click of your element and get the inspect element window.
Go to inspect element of the element and right-click
There will be a window with some options
Select copy Unique Selector option.
element(by.css('paste your Unique Selector here')).click();
Like step 5 paste your unique selector
Hope this helps. :)

Selenium Fluent WebDriver - Click does not work as expected

I have a pagination list, that is essentially constructed like so (I am using AngularJS):
<span id="latestResultsIndicator">
<ul>
<li ng-click="Item.action()"><span>1</span></li>
<li ng-click="Item.action()"><span>2</span></li>
</ul>
</span>
This works great in HTML, but when I try to write an integration test using Selenium WebDriver and the Fluent API I run into problems.
Specifically I want to click on the second li, to do this I am using the following code
I.Assert.Exists("#latestResultsIndicator");
var secondPageElement = I.Find("#latestResultsIndicator ul li:nth-child(2)");
I.Click(secondPageElement);
This doesn't actually work! If I use jQuery in the Chrome console to do $("#latestResultsIndicator ul li:nth-child(2)").trigger("click") then the second page is selected, so I know the selector is correct.
To test further I added a double click like so:
I.DoubleClick(secondPageElement);
What I noticed here is that the very first li gets selected. Its as if its trying to click or select the wrong one! (See the image).
What is happening?
I know Webdriver has some issues with css pseudo-selectors such as nth-child. You might be able to make it work with Xpath, which is just as fast and just as flexible.
var webDriver = (IWebDriver)I.Provider;
webDriver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[#id='latestResultsIndicator']//ul//li[2]")).Click();
Not sure if it will work or not, as I have not used FluentAutomation.
The CSS selector as it is written in your question is not correct
"#latestResultsIndicator ul li:nth-child(2)"
The UL has the id you're looking for, so it should be
"ul#latestResultsIndicator li:nth-child(2)"
Not sure whether that is going to solve your problem, but it's a place to start. If not, please update with the results

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