Find an element by text and get xpath - selenium webdriver junit

Question

I have a table with 9 rows and 6 columns in my webpage. I want to search for a text \"MakeGoodDisabled-Programwise_09_44_38_461(n)\" and get the xpath of the cell. I have us

Answer 1

You can generate xpaths with JavaScript:

function getPathTo(element) {

    // only generate xpaths for elements which contain a particular text:
    if (element.innerText == "MakeGoodDisabled-Programwise_09_44_38_461(n)") {

        // use id to produce relative paths rather than absolute, whenever possible
        if ((element.id !== '') && (element.id != 'undefined')) {
            return 'id(\"' + element.id + '\")';
        }

        // stop looping when you get to the body tag
        if (element === document.body) {
            return element.tagName;
        }

        // calculate position among siblings
        var ix = 0; 
        var siblings = element.parentNode.childNodes;
        for (var i = 0; i < siblings.length; i++) {
            var sibling = siblings[i];
            if (sibling === element) {
                return getPathTo(element.parentNode) + '/' + element.tagName + '[' + (ix + 1) + ']';
            }
            if (sibling.nodeType === 1 && sibling.tagName === element.tagName) {
                ix++;
            }
        }
    }
}

// put all matching xpaths in an array
var allXPaths = []; 

// if you know the particular tag you are looking for, replace * below to optimize 
var allTags = document.getElementsByTagName('*');
for (i = 0; i < allTags.length; i++) {
    if ((getPathTo(allTags[i]).indexOf('/HEAD') == -1) && (getPathTo(allTags[i]).indexOf('undefined') == -1)) {
        allXPaths.push(getPathTo(allTags[i]));
        console.log(getPathTo(allTags[i]));
    }
}
return allXPaths;

If you put that JavaScript in a String called getXPaths then in Java, you can execute it like this:

ArrayList xpaths = (ArrayList) js.executeScript(getXPaths);

It returns an array rather than a String, because if your page happens to have fewer or more elements with matching tagname/innerText, You'll want to know. You can tell by the size of the array.