To locate an element, you need to find the element based on its XPath as you can specify the text the element should contain using "contains(text(), 'YOUR TEXT HERE')".
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'Wikipedia')]"));
To locate the element based on whether any of its children contain the correct text use "contains(., 'YOUR TEXT HERE')" instead.
To select an option from a drop-down menu in C#, you can find the element directly using its XPath. The way "select" tags work is convenient for locating elements as you do not need to click on menu first to see the list of options as you would as a user.
sundayOption = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//option[.='Sunday']");
sundayOption.click();
To select an option from a drop-down menu in Python, you can find the element directly using its XPath. The way "select" tags work is convenient for locating elements as you do not need to click on menu first to see the list of options as you would as a user.
sundayOption = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//option[.='Sunday']");
sundayOption.click();
In order to explicitly wait until an element is visible or clickable, the most direct and simple way is to use a WebDriverWait object in conjunction with ExpectedConditions. The following script shows this.
In order to change to a newly opened tab, use window handles as shown in the following script. Window handles are used to store the currently opened windows and to tell the WebDriver which one to be focused on.
In order to interact with the entire page source in Python, you need to use the page_source property of the WebDriver. This script shows a basic operation that uses the page_source property to search for a specific string.
There are three ways of waiting for elements: explicit wait, implicit wait and fluent wait.
Explicit wait waits until either a certain condition is met or the timeout has been reached before attempting to return an element.
In order to return values from Javascript code, you need to execute your chosen Javascript code using the JavascriptExecutor class and cast the returned object to the chosen data type (usually a String). The following script does exactly this by returning the page's title as an object which is then casted to the type String and then assigned to the title variable.
The following script shows how to use IJavaScriptExecutor, C#'s version of Java's JavascriptExecutor class, to execute JavaScript code.
IJavaScriptExecutor js = (IJavaScriptExecutor)driver;
string title = (string)js.ExecuteScript("return document.title");
The following code shows how to open a link in a new tab using Keys.chord(...) in the first test method. This code more accurately models human behaviour compared to the following example as it directly models human behaviour.
String selectLinkOpeninNewTab = Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, Keys.RETURN);
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[strong[.='English']]")).sendKeys(selectLinkOpeninNewTab);
To get the text entered into an input element, use element.getAttribute("value") where element is the input element. The attribute text is used to get the text from the tags within an element.
WebElement query = driver.findElement(By.id("searchInput"));
query.sendKeys("the moon");
System.out.println(query.getAttribute("value"));
To mouse over elements, you need to use the Actions class to build and perform the MoveToElement command.
WebElement englishButton = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//strong[text()='English']"));
Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.moveToElement(englishButton).perform();