Selenium is having trouble finding the link within the table

While writing a Selenium script, I encountered an issue with locating a link in a table on an HTML page. Using "css=table tr:nth-child(2) td:nth-child(3) a" did not work and resulted in a "[error] locator not found" message in Selenium IDE.

However, when I used "css=table tr:nth-child(2)", it successfully located the row. I am now wondering if my CSS locator was incorrect. I believed that adding "td:nth-child(3) a" should have worked to find the link within the table data, but it did not.

Edit: I am currently working with Firefox 3.0.15

cssselenium

Answer №1

The following HTML code is provided:

<html>
  <body>
    <table>
      <tr><td>Hello</td><td>World</td></tr>
      <tr><td>I'm</td><td><a href="http://www.example.com/">Batman</a></td></tr>
    </table>
  </body>
</html>

A locator for the link in the second column of the second row can be written as:

css=tr:nth-child(2) > td:nth-child(2) > a

Update:

Upon further investigation, it appears that the original locator should function properly, but there is a known bug in the cssQuery library used by Selenium (). The suggested workaround provided above should work temporarily until the bug is resolved. Unfortunately, considering the lack of recent updates to the cssQuery library, it is uncertain when this issue will be addressed.

Answer №2

Encountering a similar issue with Selenium IDE 2.1.0 persists.

Currently conducting tests on multiple websites to verify if a specific URL has been updated.

The targeted link is situated within a table, typically in the 25th row from the top...

<tr>
<td>
<div align="center">
<font color="#FFFFFF">
<a target="_blank" href="http://[The link for testing] ...

I have experimented with both

assertElementPresent  //*[starts-with(@href,'The Link')]

and

assertElementPresent  //*[contains(@*,'The Link')]

Occasionally, the first method yields results while the second one does not. In most cases, neither proves successful in locating the link.

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