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cadeo
New Contributor
3 years ago

Click on Span Object not working occasionally

I have the following menus in my application  When I click on 'Self Service Tool' menu or hover over it, the following submenus displays Here is my code to click on the 'Self Service To...
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  • tvklovesu's avatar
    tvklovesu
    3 years ago

    cadeo, just realized there is an extra space at the beginning and end of the text. thats why its not able to find the object. use the normalize-space method in the xpath.

    ps: Do not copy and paste the below syntax as sometimes the quotes might be replaced with special chars and will not work in code. Please type manually in the code.

    //li/a[normalize-space(.) ='Self Service Tool']

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tvklovesu
Frequent Contributor
3 years ago

Hi cadeo,

Instead of you use Span try using the <a> tag like below. By doing that it takes the full area of the object.

 

wait.findObject("//li/a[contains(text(),'Self Service Tool')]").Click();

  • cadeo's avatar
    cadeo
    New Contributor
    3 years ago

    tvklovesu  using the <a> tag is not working

    • tvklovesu's avatar
      tvklovesu
      Frequent Contributor
      3 years ago

      cadeo, just realized there is an extra space at the beginning and end of the text. thats why its not able to find the object. use the normalize-space method in the xpath.

      ps: Do not copy and paste the below syntax as sometimes the quotes might be replaced with special chars and will not work in code. Please type manually in the code.

      //li/a[normalize-space(.) ='Self Service Tool']