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I am using web driver and xpaths to automate chrome. 

I am able to edit everything I need to until I get these pop ups. Then when I try to find the xpath it act like it does not exist. 

This code below is working to find input fields on the main page of the site. But, if I try the same thing for ones in the popover it will not find it. 😕 

$sElement = _WD_FindElement($sSession, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//*[substring(@id, string-length(@id) - string-length('_3') + 1 ) = '_3']")

    _WD_ElementAction($sSession, $sElement, 'value', "TEST")

Here is the html

popover.thumb.PNG.18dd21fbb559c4038be9ac473796a3d5.PNG

Any idea why it is not finding the element inside these pop overs?

 

 

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Hi @SkysLastChance,

Please don't post a screenshot of HTML. Either paste the HTML in a code box or attach as an HTML file. Also, it helps if you can provide the URL to a live website. It doesn't have to be for the actual site if that's not possible. 😉

Have you tried locating some of the other elements, such as the table or one of the initial divs?

Dan

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Sorry, added html

I was able to get this to work using the name element instead of the ID.  

$sElement = _WD_FindElement($sSession, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//*[substring(@name, string-length(@name) - string-length('_13') + 1 ) = '_13']")

Does not make any sense to me, but it works so I am not going to complain. 

I also figured out clicking buttons on the pop up work just fine as well. 

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This code below is working to find input fields on the main page of the site. But, if I try the same thing for ones in the popover it will not find it

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You didn't provide enough details to know if no matching element was found or if the wrong element was found. I suspect that it may have been the later because there's a flaw in your process of checking for the trailing portion of the element's name, id, whatever. Here's proof from the HTML you just posted -- 

<div id="z8hY_3" class="innerdoc navcomp navroot baselayer covered-layer" style="z-index: 0" data-navcomp-type="layer">
  
<input id="in8hY_3" type="text" spellcheck="false" autocomplete="off" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:100%;vertical-align:top;color:inherit;" name="in8hY_13" class="navitem s_95" data-evt="Fi Fo" data-evh-fi="Pweb.input.inputTextFocusInWrapper" data-evh-fo="Pweb.input.inputTextFocusOutWrapper" data-evt-props="[&quot;altStyle&quot;]" data-befieldchanged-url="./000000000000o3ihg5.mthd" aria-labelledby="y8hY_1l">

Your xpath would return only the Div element, not the Input element. You can replace the "*" in your xpath with the actual element type, but that still won't guarantee that you get the desired element due to the possibility that there are still multiple matches.

 

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I see what you mean.  I will be sure to post the error code going forward. 

This worked. 

$sElement = _WD_FindElement($sSession, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//input[substring(@id, string-length(@id) - string-length('_3') + 1 ) = '_3']")

Thank you!

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I wonder if something like this would work in your situation -- 

$sElement = _WD_FindElement($sSession, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, "//input[substring(@name, string-length(@name) - 2) = '_11']")
$sName = _WD_ElementAction($sSession, $sElement, 'attribute', 'name')
$sPrefix = StringTrimRight($sName, 3)

Obviously needs some error checking. Once you have the correct prefix. you could use it to retrieve the desired element without the need to take a substring of the ID or name each time.

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Oh, That's a good idea. I will be using that. I am now off and running with my script. Thank you again. I appreciate your patients with me. :)

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