Selecting and Identifying element with JQuery to use it in Selenium 2 Java API

Question

This is the situation:

• I use the Java API of Selenium 2 to open and control a firefox browser instance
• I load the jQuery script to a page via JavaScri

Answer 1

Using eval makes it even easier. Use an index selector such as [0] with the jQuery code or it will return a collection of elements.

    String elementLocator = "$('#btnID')[0]";
    public RemoteWebElement getElementByJQueryLocator(String jQueryLocator){
        JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
        RemoteWebElement element = (RemoteWebElement) js.executeScript("return eval(arguments[0]);", jQueryLocator);
        return element;
    }

        RemoteWebElement webElement = getElementByJQueryLocator(elementLocator);
        webElement.click();