Selenium Web driver xpath, span locator

Question

Selenium Webdriver. Looking to Locate New Article from following code. Please note this is under an iframe.

<img class="rtbIcon" src="/icons/16/app/shadow/document_add.png" alt="">
                                 <span class="rtbText">New Article</span>

I have tried to locate with xpath and many other ways. But following is what I get everytime

Code : driver.findElement(By.xpath("id('RadToolBar1'):div:div:div:ul:li[3]:a:span:span:span:span"));

Result: The given selector id('RadToolBar1'):div:div:div:ul:li[3]:a:span:span:span:span is either invalid or does not result in a WebElement. The following error occurred:

New article has no name, id so please if some one can help find me solution.

Hari Reddy · Answer 1 · 2012-07-03T15:59:03.397

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Your xpath seems to be wrong. The best way to get the xpath for any element on a page is by installing mozilla add on - Fire Bug. You can inspect any element using this add on and also copy the correct xpath of your element present on the page.

This should be your xpath -

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@class='rtbText']"));

or

driver.findElement(By.linkText("New Article"));

One of these should work. Let me know if you face any problem.

edited Jul 03 '12 at 15:59

answered Jul 03 '12 at 15:33

Hari Reddy

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Thanks for your reply. I have to firebug installed but it is of no help This is what I get.
New Article
– Sagar Yadav Jul 03 '12 at 15:42
Please check New Article is what I need to click on. Can i locate it some different way. – Sagar Yadav Jul 03 '12 at 15:43
I am giving you from div it starts as there is limitation on text to be Enetered.
New Article
– Sagar Yadav Jul 03 '12 at 15:46
Thank you for your help. I Tried all of them Results are Unable to locate element: for all 3. I have to click on that New Article in order to get to next screen. – Sagar Yadav Jul 03 '12 at 16:01
You can edit your question to add the entire source of your HTML page? Can you do that? – Hari Reddy Jul 03 '12 at 16:05
No Luck with two of them as well. Unable to locate element. I even have placed this command (driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(50, TimeUnit.SECONDS);)before link I execute to locate New Article. So there is no reason for page to load. Still struggling to get click on New Article. – Sagar Yadav Jul 03 '12 at 16:06
Can you tell me which version of browser and selenium standalone jar you are using? – Hari Reddy Jul 03 '12 at 16:17
I cannot edit question and tried to create new question but again too much text invloved so couldnt save it. can I attach you and send it to ur email id, mine is sagar_12384@yahoo.com – Sagar Yadav Jul 03 '12 at 16:21
sure, send it to haridnr@gmail.com – Hari Reddy Jul 03 '12 at 16:21
selenium-server-standalone-2.21.0jar is what I am using – Sagar Yadav Jul 04 '12 at 11:09

Selenium Web driver xpath, span locator

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