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Asked: 2026-05-11T10:49:10+00:00

I’m trying to capture the id of an element that will be randomly generated.

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I’m trying to capture the id of an element that will be randomly generated. I can successfully capture the value of my element id like this…

| storeAttribute | //div[1]@id | variableName |

Now my variable will be something like…

divElement-12345

I want to remove ‘divElement-‘ so that the variable I am left with is ‘12345’ so that I can use it later to select the ‘form-12345’ element associated with it…something like this:

| type | //tr[@id='form-${variableName}']/td/form/fieldset/p[1]/input | Type this |

How might I be able to accomplish this?

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  1. You have two options in Selenium, XPath and CSS Selector. I have read that CSS Selector is better for doing tests in both FireFox and IE. Using the latest version of Selenium IDE (3/5/2009) I’ve had success with using storeEval which evaluates Javascript expressions, giving you access to javascript string functions.

    XPath:

    storeAttribute | //div[1]@id                                            | divID storeEval      | '${divID}'.replace('divElement-', '')                  | number type           | //tr[@id='form-${number}']/td/form/fieldset/p[1]/input | Type this

    CSS Selector:

    storeAttribute | css=div[1]@id                                                     | divID storeEval      | '${divID}'.replace('divElement-', '')                             | number type           | css=tr[id='form-${number}'] > td > form > fieldset > p[1] > input | Type this
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