So I want to target multiple html element(s) like the below using a regular expression in a css selector:
<input id="something_stuff_013_work" />
<input id="something_stuff_016_work" />
The following CSS selector doesn't seem to work:
input[id*='[0-9]*_work']
I need to do something with digits in the regular expression because the inputs can be dynamically added and will be assigned ids with digits in them.
What am I doing wrong?
What about using the following selector:
input[id^='something_stuff_'][id$='_work']
It will get inputs with id starting with "something_stuff_" and finishing with "_work".
IDs must be targeted. The attribute substring selectors target a group.or range of values.
#8ab58c40-60c9-4984-adb5-13c44160459a Don't ask why we are using that as an id though...CSS does not support regexes in selectors. Use classes or starts-from and ends-with attribute selectors.
An approach to this problem would be to use classes instead of ids and have things that are styled the same to be classed the same. for example:
<input id="something_stuff_01_work" class="input_class">
<input id="something_stuff_02_work" class="input_class">
<input id="something_stuff_03_work" class="input_class">
Then select the class instead of the id.
.input_class {
sweetstyleofawesomeness;
}
Try prefixing the numeric id with \3.
I came across this today, it was the selector generated using chrometools, I'd not seen it before, and it works using Chromium Webdriver:
#\37
Full selector used is "#\37 > div > div.cell-text".
This was a selector to select an element with id = "7".
It (prefixing with \3) seems to work throughout the document I am looking at automating, with my current setup.
