Finding an element by partial id with Selenium in C#
That is because the css selector needs to be modified you were almost there...
driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("table[id*='ReportViewer_fixedTable']"))`
From https://saucelabs.com/blog/selenium-tips-css-selectors-in-selenium-demystified:
css=a[id^='id_prefix_']
A link with an id
that starts with the text id_prefix_
.
css=a[id$='_id_sufix']
A link with an id
that ends with the text _id_sufix
.
css=a[id*='id_pattern']
A link with an id
that contains the text id_pattern
.
You were using a suffix which I'm assuming was not the partial link text identifier you were supposed to be using (unless I saw your html, which means try showing your html next time). *=
is reliable in any situation though.
try using
targetElement = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//table[contains(@id, "ReportViewer_fixedTable")]"));
Note this will check for all the elements that have id which contains (and not only ends with 'ReportViewer_fixedTable'). I will try to find a regex option that would be more accurate answer to you question.
This solution will work irrespective of the XPath version. First, create a method somewhere in your COMMON helper class.
public static string GetXpathStringForIdEndsWith(string endStringOfControlId) { return "//*[substring(@id, string-length(@id)- string-length(\"" + endStringOfControlId + "\") + 1 )=\"" + endStringOfControlId + "\"]"; }
In my case, below is the control ID in different version of my product ::
v1.0 :: ContentPlaceHolderDefault_MasterPlaceholder_HomeLoggedOut_7_hylHomeLoginCreateUser
v2.0 :: ContentPlaceHolderDefault_MasterPlaceholder_HomeLoggedOut_8_hylHomeLoginCreateUser
Then, you can call the above method to find the control which has static end string.
By.XPath(Common.GetXpathStringForIdEndsWith("<End String of the Control Id>"))
For the control ID's which I mentioned for v1 & v2, I use like below :
By.XPath(Common.GetXpathStringForIdEndsWith("hylHomeLoginCreateUser"))
The overall logic is that, you can use the below XPath expression to find a control which ends with particular string:
//*[substring(@id, string-length(@id)- string-length("<EndString>") + 1 )="<EndString>"]