Testing dynamic values (values from drop down) in selenium

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Permalink Reply by Sudhir Patil on April 25, 2011 at 11:28am

Please elaborate kind of error you are getting.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Bibhas Kumar Senapati on April 25, 2011 at 11:47am

please specify the error.

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Permalink Reply by Nagraju dasam on April 25, 2011 at 12:24pm

You have to use xpath to find the element if the ID is dynamicc

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Permalink Reply by sneha A on April 25, 2011 at 12:28pm

Selenium.Selenium Exception: Error- not found is the error i get when i select the drop down.

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Permalink Reply by Nagraju dasam on April 25, 2011 at 12:33pm

May be the element ID is dynamic..so u r getting that error..pls send code of the page and scrrnshot of the page

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Permalink Reply by sneha A on April 25, 2011 at 12:45pm

yes. the ID is dynamic.... that's the reason for d error

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Permalink Reply by Nagraju dasam on April 25, 2011 at 1:29pm

please send the code or URL of the site

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Permalink Reply by Jan Boniface on April 26, 2011 at 11:32pm

Let's start with a small table with a Select list inside of it.

 

<table id="testRuns" border="0"  valign="top" align="left" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 class="TABLE_section_bar2">
<tr valign="top">
<td valign="top" class="TD_tool_bar1"><b>Show testcases by testrun: </b></td>
<td valign="top" class="TD_tool_bar1">
<select id="some_dynamic_value"  multiple  size=2  class="select_small">
<option value="0" selected>---<br>
<option value="1505_2557">R10.4_Preprod<br>
<option value="1505_2785">R10.5_Preprod<br>
<option value="1505_3272">R10.6_Preprod<br>
<option value="1505_3340">R11.1_PreProd<br>
<option value="1505_3506">R11.2_Preprod
</select>
</td>
</table>

What you want to do to gain access to the select list is move backwards in the DOM until you have a clear and consistent path to the select list. In the case above, as long as my TABLE always has an ID of "testRuns" and my select list is always inside a TD tag, and there is only one TD with a select list in that table, we could do this...

 

String[] options = selenium.getSelectOptions("//table[@id='testRuns']//tr//td[@class='TD_tool_bar1']//select");

 

There is a possibility that your select list has a class or some additional attribute that will help in locating it. In the example above I could add the class to the select to make it more specific...//select[@class='select_small']

 

If you want the ID of the select list, you can ask for it like this...

String selectID = selenium.getAttribute("//table[@id='testRuns']//tr//td[@class='TD_tool_bar1']//select[@class='select_small']@id");

 

Then, getting the values is as easy as ...

String[] options = selenium.getSelectOptions("//select[@id='" + selectID + "']");

 

or

String[] options = selenium.getSelectOptions("//select[@id='" + selenium.getAttribute("//table[@id='testRuns']//tr//td[@class='TD_tool_bar1']//select[]@id") + "']");

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Permalink Reply by sneha A on April 27, 2011 at 9:48am

thanx a ton Jan!!!

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