Using css selector in Selenium Webdriver with Ruby

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I have this code for which I am doing automation testing using ruby.

<div class="class1 class2 class3 class4" style="padding: 4px;" id="_d4b99a9f-d1c8-4587-94e2-5ee95ebf1f76"> 
    <span class="class5" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">This is new TITLE</span> 
    <div class="class6" dd:contenttype="TEST CONTENT TYPE" dd:concept="TITLE" id="_7cfd6eed-fa15-42b8-81af-d09bf3cd4460">
     <div class="class7"> 
      <div class="class8" dd:contenttype="TEST CONTENT" dd:entityid="0" dd:entityversion="0" id="_1c9125c4-b078-4017-a5ad-c48210e7090b"> 
       <div class="class9 class10" dd:btnfloatingstyle="top-right" dd:entitytexttype="resultval" id="_9c41159a-3a5b-4de1-87d2-e3361bd4d746" contenteditable="true"></div> 
      </div> 
     </div>
    </div> 
   </div>

I want to search the element using either 'This is new TITLE' or 'TITLE' for which I tried find_element with css selector and also with xpath but none seemed to work for me.

driver.find_element(:css, "span.class5") or `driver.find_element(:css, "div.class1 class2 class3 class4 span.class5")`

Nothing seemed to work for me. Am I missing something?

Is this question different than your previous one - Find elements using Selenium Webdriver? — Justin Ko
– Justin Ko, Commented Jul 29, 2013 at 21:25
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– Justin Ko, Commented Jul 29, 2013 at 21:28

Arup Rakshit · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-30 07:38:40Z

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Yes,you can do that using selenium-webdriver and :xpath. Take a look at the below example:

require 'selenium-webdriver'

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.navigate.to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)"

driver.find_element(:xpath,"//span[@class = 'mw-headline' and text() = 'Ruby 1.0' ]").tag_name
# => "span"
driver.find_element(:xpath,"//span[@class = 'mw-headline' and text() = 'Ruby 1.0' ]").text
# => "Ruby 1.0"

This example is fully equivalent to your html code. Now try to create your xpath,by taking the help of the above. You will get success.

edited Jul 30, 2013 at 7:38

answered Jul 30, 2013 at 6:38

Arup Rakshit

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Duck1337 · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-29 21:57:03Z

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Use nokogiri gem

require 'nokogiri'

$page_html = Nokogiri::HTML.parse(browser.html)

$page_html.css("span.ddsectiondisplay").text
=>"This is new Title"

Or if you're just using watir.

browser.title
=>"title of page"

answered Jul 29, 2013 at 21:57

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