showing exception when selecting the cssselection in selenium

Question

<h3 class="menuheader expandable " headerindex="1h"><span class="accordprefix"></span>

<h3 class="menuheader expandable " headerindex="2h"><span class="accordprefix"></span>
<h3 class="menuheader expandable " headerindex="3h"><span class="accordprefix"></span>

Our application is having the above headers. Each header is having the headerindex as an unique value to identify. I have used the below code:

WebElement Tab_selection = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("<h3>[headerindex=2h]"));
Tab_selection.click();

But it is showing the exception:

invalid selector: An invalid or illegal selector was specified. Could you please help on that

also i have tried with below WebElement Tab_selection = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("h3[headerindex = 2h]")); Tab_selection.click(); — Krishna, Apr 28 '15 at 21:17

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

1

You need to enclose 2h into quotes (explanation):

h3[headerindex="2h"]

And, xpath locator is always an alternative:

By.xpath("//h3[@headerindex='2h']")

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

Community

1
1

answered Apr 28 '15 at 21:20

alecxe

462,703
120
1,088
1,195

showing exception when selecting the cssselection in selenium

1 Answers1