In Selenium Webdriver, how to get an input element after a text?

Question

In my case, there are some legacy web sites, in which not all the inputs have id attribute properly set. Such as this:

<div class="form-group">
    <label>Amount</label>
    <input id="unreasonablename" type="text" value=""></input>
</div>

But human testers can still test it by typing amount value in the input right behind "Amount". I'd like to make web driver do the same thing:

webDriver.inputAfter("Amount", 100); //I do not want to use "unreasonablename" to find the input.

But how can I find the input element after the text "Amount"? Thanks.

There is a relative question here: In Selenium Webdriver, how to get a text after an element?. But I'm not familiar with xpath and do not know if my case can be solved in the same way.

Your Best bet would be using the xpath, if you dont have reliable id's. Dont write it off because you dont know it. — BastianBuhrkall, May 16 '18 at 15:21
Thank you all guys and sorry for being late. I was just back from some other businesses. I works fine now with your help. Seems that you are all right :) — cheny, May 28 '18 at 05:40

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 16 '18 at 15:22

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To find the <input> element just after the text Amount you can use the findElement() method along with the Locator Strategy as follows :

webDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//label[contains(.,'Amount')]//following::input[1]"));

answered May 16 '18 at 15:22

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maybe following-sibling would be a better option – Grasshopper May 16 '18 at 15:39

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 16 '18 at 15:43

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you can try following_sibling as

webDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[text()='Amount']/following-sibling::Input"));

answered May 16 '18 at 15:43

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 16 '18 at 16:24

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try this :

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//label[text()='Amount']/following-sibling::input")).sendKeys("amount to be sent");

answered May 16 '18 at 16:24

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 17 '18 at 18:12

you can write some generic method like below. It can be used for all the required fileds by passing the label name and input value as argument

void enterInputAfterLabel(String labelname,String value){
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//label[text()='"+labelname+"']]/input")).sendKeys(value);
}

In Selenium Webdriver, how to get an input element after a text?

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