Question

Here’s the markup:

<h3>Customers</h3>
   <ul>
      <li>
          <label for="customer115">Some Customer Name</label>
          <input id="customer115"  type="checkbox" value="115" name="customer115">
      </li>
      .. there are more <li> here...and so on
   </ul>
<h3>Dealers</h3>
   <ul>
      <li>
          <label for="dealer100">Some DealerName</label>
          <input id="dealer100"  type="checkbox" value="115" name="dealer115">
      </li>
      .. there are more <li> here...and so on
   </ul>

I’m trying to get reference to the customer checkbox for example so I can do a click() on it via XPath. I’m doing this in Selenium so something like:

 string sXPath = string.Format(string.Format("//h3[text()='{0}']/ul/li/input[1]", "Customers"));

IWebElement firstCompanyCheckbox = GetElementByXPath(sXPath);
firstCompanyCheckbox.Click();

So far I can’t figure out how to get to this reference, the above xPath does not find it. I want to click that checkbox.

Answer 1

The ul is not a child of h3. It is a sibling. Adjust your XPath to use the following-sibling:: axis

//h3[text()='{0}']/following-sibling::ul/li/input[1]

If you want to ensure that you select the first ul and the first li, then add additional predicate filters:

//h3[text()='{0}']/following-sibling::ul[1]/li[1]/input[1]