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royd
Regular Contributor
8 years ago

Trouble with XPath, need guidance

Trying to use XPath to click "Logout" (menu link). Here is what I have:   page = "*.imedconsent.com/THC*" var logOut = page.FindChildByXPath("//a[@name='mainMenu_Logout']"); logOut.Click(); I am g...
  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    8 years ago

    I guess the problem is that page is a string, it must be a Page object:

    page = Sys.Browser().Page("*.imedconsent.com/THC*");
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HKosova
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I guess the problem is that page is a string, it must be a Page object:

page = Sys.Browser().Page("*.imedconsent.com/THC*");
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royd
Regular Contributor
8 years ago

Thank you, Helen

 

Thant was a silly oversight on my part! It works as expected!

 

robert, I should have posted the entire message. I'm sure you would have caught it! The error message was:

 

Microsoft JScript runtime error.

 

Object doesn't support this property or method.

 

Error location:

Unit: AtHome Smoke ...

Line: 8 Column: 3.

 

I was in a hurry. :)

 

That bring me to the next question. What does Column 3 mean? 3 characters, 3 words, 3 words + space?! I always wonder! Can anyone clear that up for me?

 

Thanks.

  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    8 years ago

    Three characters... so, basically, starting at the beginning of the line and starting with 0, count the characters... column 3 is the 4th character on line 8.

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      royd
      Regular Contributor
      8 years ago

      Thank you Robert! :)