Select button on webpage selenium VBA

Question

I am trying to automate a web page which has about 50 select buttons and here's an example

<input type="button" value="اختر" onclick="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$GridView1','Select$2')">

The part which is 'Select$2' is what changes from a button to another .. How can I specify the xpath of such a button? I could select all the buttons using this

//input[@type='button']

But I would like to select specific button.

JaSON · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-17 11:56:15Z

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If you want to use unique part of onclick attribute as locator try

//input[@type='button' and contains(@onclick, 'Select$2')]

answered Nov 17, 2020 at 11:56

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YasserKhalil Over a year ago

Amazing. Thanks a lot. How can I avoid selecting 20 and 21 and 22 and so on, as the xpath selects them too?

JaSON Over a year ago

@YasserKhalil maybe try to add escape characters like contains(@onclick, '\'Select$2\'') to specify that you want onclick attribute to contain exactly string 'Select$2', but not sub-string Select$2... I'm not sure how it should be done in VBA. In Python we can just mix quotes '//input[@type="button" and contains(@onclick, "'Select$2'")]'

YasserKhalil Over a year ago

Thanks a lot. I could solve that point in VBA like that. Declare a variable Dim sSel As String then assign the value sSel = "'Select$2'" and finally used this line bot.FindElementByXPath("//input[@type='button' and contains(@onclick, " & sSel & ")]").Click

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