Handle elements that have changing ids all the time through Selenium Webdriver

Question

I am running the script to automate test cases and having this unique problem. I have detected and used IDs of the elements for click etc. purpose. However, all of a sudden

Answer 1

You can utilize CSS for this. For your element, looks like its:

<* id="tile276_input" />

What you need to do is find out what is changing about it. I assume it's the number inbetween. If it is, then your selector would look something like:

By.cssSelector("*[id^='tile'][id$='input']")

This will look for anything that has an ID that "starts with tile" and "ends with input. In our case, "tile276_input" matches that.

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