How to avoid Compound Class name error in Page Object? How to avoid Compound Class name error in Page Object? selenium selenium

How to avoid Compound Class name error in Page Object?


Use a CSS selector instead:

.country.name

The important thing to note is that this example is wrong! If "country name" is meant as a name of a country, that is. Class names can't have spaces in them. In fact, the class attribute is a space-separated list of classes. That means that if you have a class country name, it's not one class, it's two different classes your element belongs to - the first is country, the second is name!

Therefore, fix your classes, if they're wrong. If they're not, use a CSS selector, it's the only reliable way to match multiple classes (apart from a very long and complicated XPath expression). Don't use trivial XPath expressions or CSS selectors with naive attribute comparison (//*[@class='country name'] or *[class='country name']), that's just plain wrong.


You can use with this

By.cssSelector("*[class^='classname']");^ is for if you entering beginning of the class name, $ is for if you entering ending of the class name usage example below with sample class name: tech random corner text_leftBy.cssSelector("*[class^='tech']");By.cssSelector("*[class$='text_left']");


You can use one of these class names, for example

:class => 'country' 

or

:class => 'name'

if it can't help you then you should switch to use other type of selector :css or :xpath

But note that in case of :css you write:

:css => '.country.name'

and in case of :xpath:

:xpath => '//div[@class='country code']

both should work