XPATH of element with the same class name

Question

How can I create an Xpath for individual elements within the same class name? The element ids (eg. id='some_item_12') is not constant (ie. could be 12,3, etc on next iteration) so I can't use a direct xpath to the element.

I have used the one below but it fetches the first element in that class eg. //*[@id='someitem_12']/td[5]/div/a[1] while I want a[2]

//*[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' $classname ')]

Thanks.

LP

There are lots of ways it could be done - but without seeing more of the html to understand the structure, it's difficult to recommend any one way of doing it. — Vince Bowdren, Jun 07 '13 at 13:15
I'll explain the scenario: I have a set of rules that I can add to a Rule_list and each rule created has an edit and delete button. Assume that's what needs automation ie. creating a rule, editing it and deleting it after verifying the working functionality. The issue here is that each time I want to delete the rule, the button's name "rule_input_id" keeps changing ie. it's rule_input_12 or 2 etc so the test fails. How would you suggest going about that? — L P, Jun 12 '13 at 09:40

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 07 '13 at 11:11

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Looks ok

You can also use findElements which will return a list of all elements. From there you can iterate on the result list and find the element you were looking for

answered Jun 07 '13 at 11:11

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '13 at 14:03

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I think I've got it but I'm sure there are better ways of doing it.

//*[contains(@id,'someitem_')]/a[2] //worked for me

answered Jun 06 '13 at 14:03

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XPATH of element with the same class name

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