Xpath checkbox locators

Question

I'm using Selenium for my autotests but got stack with XPATH.

I need to delete user and groups from address book but I do not understand which locator i need to use I was trying using different Xpaths, but maybe you can tell me what to read because now I' totally lost.

HTML of the addressbook:

What I've tried

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//form[@lastname='Anna']/input")).click();

and

//table[@id='maintable']/tbody/tr[12]/td[2]

Answer 1

To click() on the checkbox with for user Anna you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• cssSelector:

  driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[title*='Anna'][alt*='Anna'][type='checkbox']")).click();
  

• xpath:

  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[contains(@title, 'Anna') and contains(@alt, 'Anna')][@type='checkbox']")).click();
  

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Ideally to click() on the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• cssSelector:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("input[title*='Anna'][alt*='Anna'][type='checkbox']"))).click();
  

• xpath:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//input[contains(@title, 'Anna') and contains(@alt, 'Anna')][@type='checkbox']"))).click();
  

Answer 2

Your XPath fetch first input child of form node which is hidden. Try more specific selector

"//input[@title='Select (testuser Anna)']"