How to locate the element that has the same class using Selenium and Java

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I am unable to locate the proper element for a BI dashboard pane that has the same class

<a class="mi-title" deatta-no-in="inTitleShowed('folder')" daetta-ni-href="" data-ng-bind="navverTreeItemScope.listItem.title" style="" xpath="1">Staging - ALCDE</a>`

They all look like the above element and the only thing that change is the dashboard name Staging - ALCDE

Please re-write your question and give proper source code examples — letmejustfixthat, Aug 16 '19 at 04:36
Please provide your code. SO's rules about minimal examples: https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example — milanbalazs, Aug 16 '19 at 04:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 16 '19 at 05:11

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You can try this :

WebElement elmt = driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//*[@class='mi-title'])[1]"));

Change [1] to [2] etc, this is the number for the element if there is more than one.

answered Aug 16 '19 at 05:11

frianH

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Hi this code did not work it returned an error message xception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"(//*[@class='mi-title'])[1]"} – PeaceT Aug 16 '19 at 14:45

dhulipala murali · Answer 2 · 2019-08-17T05:18:08.693

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You can also use this xpath for identifying the element

driver.findelement(By.xpath("//*[@data-ng-bind='navverTreeItemScope.listItem.title']"))

edited Aug 17 '19 at 05:18

answered Aug 16 '19 at 05:17

dhulipala murali

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undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-16T16:21:41.843

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As you mentioned the only thing that change is the dashboard name i.e. Staging - ALCDE so you have to induce WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

linkText:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.linkText("Staging - ALCDE"))).click();

xpath:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//a[@class='mi-title' and text()='Staging - ALCDE'][starts-with(@data-ng-bind, 'navverTreeItemScope')]"))).click();

edited Aug 16 '19 at 16:21

answered Aug 16 '19 at 06:57

undetected Selenium

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thanks for your swift help, both codes did not work. I didn't get any error message this time and it did not click on the dashboard. Please, any reason why? Thank you – PeaceT Aug 16 '19 at 14:28
@PeaceT What do you mean by **did not click**? Your question and this answer both are for **locating** the element. Do you want to `click()`? – undetected Selenium Aug 16 '19 at 15:02
apologies for not being clear, Yes I want to click on it as well. but when I added click(); to the code, I got a syntax error 'Type mismatch: cannot convert from void to WebElemen – PeaceT Aug 16 '19 at 15:50
@PeaceT Checkout the answer update and let me know the status. – undetected Selenium Aug 16 '19 at 16:22
@DebanjabB Woohoo its work. Thank you so much you are the best. I am working on a professional project. Please, I will reach out again. Thank you again – PeaceT Aug 16 '19 at 18:39
Hi Please, I ran into another problem. I posted it on my page. Please, can you help me look into it? Thanks again – PeaceT Aug 16 '19 at 20:45

How to locate the element that has the same class using Selenium and Java

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