Dynamic webelement verification

Hi popsha:-
The line in bold below is what i want to validate.
<div id="main-content">

<div class="module-advert" style="overflow:visible">


<span class="corners-top">

<div class="inner">

<span class="corners-bottom">
</div>

<div style="height:3px"></div>

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<p>Current date/time is Sun Nov 04, 2012 11:34 pm</p>

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Dear Rohit,

As I understand from your code, only the "text" changes and not the web element. It means,

....

is static.

If I'm right, both xpath-relative and xpath-absolute should work in your scenario. Please let me know the errors it throws.

Because I tried this in my tool with similar scenarios.

Hi Popsha,

I am trying this:-

System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='main-content']/p[2]")).getAttribute("Text"));

but it fetches null.

I tried this with other attributes like name,value but no result.

I was actually thinking if we can pass text as parameter and identify the webelement.

rohit kumar gupta wrote:Hi Popsha,
System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='main-content']/p[2]")).getAttribute("Text"));

but it fetches null.

It fetches null because there is no such attribute called - "Text". You need to use getText() method -

Code:

System.out.println(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='main-content']/p[2]")).getText());


I assume that your xPath is correct!

Yes, tarun is correct.

Thanks Tarun and Popsha....

Just another doubt. In doing gettext() i will have to write an if statment to compare texts. Is there a way where in i can pass the text and check for presence of the webelement. Something similar to checkpoint of qtp...

can achieve this in different ways by hard coding it.

try using .equals method