I need help finding a web element in selenium Java

Question

Here is the HTML:

<input id="ember354" class="ember-view ember-text-field search" placeholder="Ask me anything!" type="text">

Which is reached from body-div-div-input

Different variations of this code replacing * with input and using contains & starts-with functions were of no use:

WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@class='ember-view ember-text-field search']"));

Different CSS selectors like this were used including contains and other functions were of no success either

WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("ember-view.ember-text-field.search"));

I thought maybe searching by placeholder since that is static would be a good idea but I do not know how to go about that.

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element — simonshout
– simonshout, Commented Apr 22, 2014 at 18:58

Ajinkya · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-22 19:11:38Z

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You can try to find element by its placeholder

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@placeholder='Ask me anything!']"))

answered Apr 22, 2014 at 19:11

Ajinkya

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Pratik Patel · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-26 12:01:13Z

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You are making mistake with css selector. I think you forgot to put . in front of class name while using css selector.

Correct css locator would be .ember-view.ember-text-field.search

So your final code look like :

String cssLocator = ".ember-view.ember-text-field.search";
WebElement ele= driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(cssLocator));

or if you want to make it more specific then you can use:

String cssLocator = ".ember-view[placeholder='Ask me anything!']"; also

answered Jan 26, 2017 at 12:01

Pratik Patel

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