showing exception when selecting the cssselection in selenium

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<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
– Krishna, Commented Apr 28, 2015 at 21:17

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:14:17Z

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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, 2017 at 12:14

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