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Selenium-Webdriver: get attributes after finding an element

I'm still pretty new to automation, so this may seem like a dumb question. I did a google search to the end before posting a question though :)

Anyway, here is the problem

I am automating tests on an Android device. One of the tests is to verify that the item is marked as Favorites. Page code snippet:

<li class = "resultItem isFavorite" data-index="2"> <div class="name" data-cis="4ced6feb-3b5c-415a-ae1c-0b8bca8e3c85" onclick="return true">f,f</div> </li>

I can find the item in the list with el = @driver.find_element(:xpath, "//*[class='name' and text() ='f,f']") . I was hoping el.class would show me the result. Instead, I get: Selenium: WebDriver :: Element

If the item is not marked as favorite, the isFavorite flag is not added to the field. I was hoping to use isFavorite to verify that the item is marked as favorites, but I cannot represent it in a variable.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff

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What you really want here is something like the following:

 # Note: Possibly incorrect Ruby code here. # Written from memory. el = @driver.find_element(:xpath, "/your/xpath/here") # Could also your el["class"] element_class_attribute = el.attribute("class")

Usually using most attribute names, such as src (as in el.src ), will give you a runtime error. However, it happens that class has a special meaning in Ruby, and each object has a class attribute, which is a Ruby class.

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I am reading two questions here. Firstly, short, light.

Q: Now that I have found el , how do I access its HTML class attribute?

A: Use el.attribute('class') or its short arm el['class'] . See Selenium :: WebDriver :: Element.attribute .

Now longer.

Q: How can I check that an element marked with an el is marked as a favorite?

A: See below.

To give a better answer, I will need additional information about the composition of the page that we are testing. I made some basic assumptions:

  • There are one or more li elements on the page with the class 'resultItem' , some of which also have the class 'isFavorite' .
  • Each of these li elements has one or more child elements, one of which is guaranteed to be a div with the class 'name' .
  • Only one such child div will have the text 'f,f' .

Generally speaking, we have two ways to do this.

  • We can find the corresponding div , and then check that its parent li has the class 'isFavorite' .
  • We can find all li elements with the class 'isFavorite' and then check that one of them contains the corresponding div .

There are many things we need to know here.

For Selenium, XPath selectors can be found by text, but are poorly suited for searching by class . CSS selectors are good for searching by class, but cannot find by text . None of them are perfect for finding the div we are after.

As mentioned above, we can get the class (attribute) of an element using element['class'] . As we found out, element.class calls Object#class , giving us Selenium::WebDriver::Element . el['class'] , in this case, gives the string 'name' . If its parent is called, we get 'resultItem isFavorite' .

We can get the text of an element using element.text . el.text would give us 'f,f' in this case. Like the JavaScript textContent function , it returns the text of the element and all its descendants, so calling text() on the parent element will also give us 'f,f' . Note that this method can be slow and returns an empty string if the item is not displayed in some way. Use with caution. See Selenium :: WebDriver :: Element.text for more details.

Given the above, let's see how methods # 1 and # 2 work. (Below is Ruby 1.9.3.)

Method # 1

 div_elements = @driver.find_elements(:css, 'li > div.name').select { |e| e.text == 'f,f' } div_element = div_elements.first parent_li = div_element.find_element(:xpath, './..') parent_li_classes = parent_li['class'].scan(/\S+/) if parent_li_classes.include?('isFavorite') # PASS else # FAIL end

Method # 2

 favorite_items = @driver.find_elements(:css, 'li.isFavorite') if favorite_items.any? { |item| item.find_element(:css, 'div.name').text == 'f,f' } # PASS else # FAIL end

Method No. 2, refactoring

 if @driver.find_elements(:css, 'li.isFavorite').any? { |item| item.text == 'f,f' } # PASS else # FAIL end
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I was able to solve this by going to it differently:

 element = @driver.find_elements(:class, "isFavorite") element.each do |t| if t.text() == 'f,f' then result = "pass" end end

I have a feeling that it can be very slow if there is a long list ... but at least it works :)

thanks

Jeff

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ruby

 element.attribute("attribute name")

Python

 element.get_attribute("attribute name")

Java

 element.getAttribute("attribute name")

WITH#

 element.GetAttribute("attribute name");
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