Finding a element with a generated Id in selenium?

Question

HTML:

<g id="OpenLayers.Layer.Vector_101_vroot">
    <image id="OpenLayers.Geometry.Point_259_status"..></image>

So the page generates the above and the number section of the Id is different on each load.

How do I located them, or even a group of them that match the pattern using selenium and python?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 22 '14 at 08:38

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Use Xpaths like below:

//g[contains(@id, 'OpenLayers.Layer.Vector')]
//image[contains(@id, 'OpenLayers.Geometry.Point')]

Hope if helps!

answered Aug 22 '14 at 08:38

Sitam Jana

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If I already have the element that Contains the element should I be using // or .// ? thanks – Tomy Aug 22 '14 at 08:57
You can use : //g[contains(@id, 'OpenLayers.Layer.Vector')]/image[contains(@id, 'OpenLayers.Geometry.Point')] – Sitam Jana Aug 22 '14 at 09:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 22 '14 at 08:52

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no need for and pattern matching, you can use this module here called "beautiful soup" with some easy documentation here.

for example to get all tags with id="OpenLayers.Layer.Vector_101_vroot" use:

soup = BeautifulSoup(<your_html_as_a_string>)
soup.find_all(id="OpenLayers.Layer.Vector_101_vroot")

answered Aug 22 '14 at 08:52

Ishan Khare

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Thanks for the reply but BeautifulSoup appears to be a parser, im usuing selenium it interacts with a broweser as a person would. Thanks – Tomy Aug 22 '14 at 09:09

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

according to this answer, you can use css3 substring matching attribute selector. the following code clicks an element which contains OpenLayers.Layer.Vector in id attribute.

Python

from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome()
browser.get('http://localhost:1111/')
browser.find_element_by_css_selector('[id*="OpenLayers.Layer.Vector"]').click()

HTML (which is displayed in http://localhost:1111/)

<button id="OpenLayers.Layer.Vector_123" onclick="alert(1);return false">xxx</button>

Finding a element with a generated Id in selenium?

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