Need to find element in selenium by css
Only using class names is not sufficient in your case.
By.cssSelector(".ban")
has 15 matching nodesBy.cssSelector(".hot")
has 11 matching nodesBy.cssSelector(".ban.hot")
has 5 matching nodes
Therefore you need more restrictions to narrow it down. Option 1 and 2 below are available for css selector, 1 might be the one that suits your needs best.
Option 1: Using list items' index (CssSelector or XPath)
Limitations
- Not stable enough if site's structure changes
Example:
driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("#rightbar > .menu > li:nth-of-type(3) > h5"));driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[@id='rightbar']/ul/li[3]/h5"));
Option 2: Using Selenium's FindElements
, then index them. (CssSelector or XPath)
Limitations
- Not stable enough if site's structure changes
- Not the native selector's way
Example:
// note that By.CssSelector(".ban.hot") and //*[contains(@class, 'ban hot')] are different, but doesn't matter in your caseIList<IWebElement> hotBanners = driver.FindElements(By.CssSelector(".ban.hot"));IWebElement banUsStates = hotBanners[3];
Option 3: Using text (XPath only)
Limitations
- Not for multilanguage sites
- Only for XPath, not for Selenium's CssSelector
Example:
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//h5[contains(@class, 'ban hot') and text() = 'us states']"));
Option 4: Index the grouped selector (XPath only)
Limitations
- Not stable enough if site's structure changes
- Only for XPath, not CssSelector
Example:
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("(//h5[contains(@class, 'ban hot')])[3]"));
Option 5: Find the hidden list items link by href, then traverse back to h5 (XPath only)
Limitations
- Only for XPath, not CssSelector
- Low performance
- Tricky XPath
Example:
driver.FindElement(By.XPath(".//li[.//ul/li/a[contains(@href, 'geo.craigslist.org/iso/us/al')]]/h5"));
By.cssSelector(".ban")
or By.cssSelector(".hot")
or By.cssSelector(".ban.hot")
should all select it unless there is another element that has those classes.
In CSS, .name
means find an element that has a class with name
. .foo.bar.baz
means to find an element that has all of those classes (in the same element).
However, each of those selectors will select only the first element that matches it on the page. If you need something more specific, please post the HTML of the other elements that have those classes.
You can describe your css selection like cascading style sheet dows:
protected override void When(){ SUT.Browser.FindElements(By.CssSelector("#carousel > a.tiny.button"))}