Selenium pattern matching

Question

Needed some help with pattern matching in Selenium. I am trying to read the following inner div tags,

<div>
     <div class="xyz one"></div>

     <div class="xyz two"></div>

     <div class="xyz three"></div>
</div>

Is there a way I can do this? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Cheers

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '12 at 22:34

Here's an XPath that you can use in order to select all div tags that contain the text 'xyz'.

"//div[contains(@class, 'xyz')]"

So in order to use this, you'd use this line, which creates a collection of all the divs with the text 'xyz'

var divElements = driver.FindElements(By.XPath("//div[contains(@class, 'xyz')]"));

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '12 at 09:24

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IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("div.xyz"));

answered Aug 01 '12 at 09:24

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

Looks like your question has already been answered Get HTML Source of WebElement in Selenium WebDriver using Python Then you can parse your output.

EDIT

To make things easier: (Using Python)

Try:

class_list = [] 
my_divs = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector(div[class*=xyz])
for div in my_divs:
   outerHTML = div.get_attribute("outerHTML")
   classpos = outerHTML.find('class=') #find where our class identifier begins
   quote_begin = outerHTML.find('"',classpos) 
   quote_end = outerHTML.find('"', quote_begin+1)
   our_class = outerHTML[classpos:quote_end+1] #get the entire class identifier
   class_list.append(our_class)
   print our_class

I'm sure theres someone with a one liner of code that does the same thing that my 4 lines does but this was what I could come up with. Also, this code can be changed around pretty quickly into Java

Selenium pattern matching

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