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.

See this article if you want more information

Answer 2

WebElement element = driver.getElement(By.cssSelector("[id^='title']);

Or

WebElement element = driver.getElement(By.cssSelector("id:contains('title')"));

You Can use this element to do desired actions.

Answer 3

You also can try contains and starts-with() for such things

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(@id,'title')]"))

or

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//* [start-with(@id,'title')]"))